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PRESENTED BY 



eecord of the 

Class of Seventy-six 

princeton 



BOARD OF EDITORS 

HENKY L. HAEEISON, Secretary and Treasurer 

W. J. HENDEESON EDWAED D. LYON 

HENEY M. EUSSELL 




NUMBER VIIL— 1876-1906 



CONTENTS 



Class Officers and Committees, 


. 




r 


Circular of Inquiry, 


vi 


Preface, 


vii 


Personal History 




Graduates, Academic, 


1 


Graduates, School of Science, . 


113 


Non-Graduate Members, Academic, . 


119 


Non-Graduate Members, School of Science, 


139 


Marriages, 


141 


Births, .... 






145 


Necrology, .... 






158 


Eecapitulation, 






160 


The Tricesimal Eeunion, . 






161 


The Dinner, 






165 


The Speeches, 






. 169 


Treasurer's Statement, 






180 


The Story of the Cups, 






181 


'76 and the Princeton Lake, 






. 191 


'76 and Eace Decline, 






. 196 


The Class of '76 Prize Debate, 






. 198 


The Preceptorial System, . 






. 201 


Faculty Notes, . 






. 204 


Baseball Scores, 






. 205 


Football Scores, 






. 207 


Debates, .... 






. 207 


The Class Eoll with Addresses, 






. 208 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Fitz Eandolph Gateway, 

Class Group, .... 

George Washington, 

General View of West Campus, . 

Prof. William A. Packard, . 

Interior of Alexander Hall, 

Prof. Henry C. Cameron, . 

Hikoiehi Orita and Children, . 

The New Gymnasium, 

Prof. Theodore W. Hunt, . 

The New Gymnasium, Interior . 

Prof. Cyrus F. Braekett, . 

Class of '76, School of Science, . 

Prof. Henry B. Cornwall, . 

Class of 1879 Dormitory, 

'76 on University Field, June 9, 1906, 

'76 at Mrs. McCosh's, 

'76 Headquarters and Championship 

Fire, .... 

The Loving Cup, 
The Legend of Captain James McCarthy, 190 and 191 
Plan of College Grounds, . . Facing page 214 



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CLASS OFFICERS AND 
COMMITTEES 



President 
Egbert Edwin Bonner 

Vice-President 
Henry E. Davis 

Secretary and Treasurer 
Henry L. Harrison 

Executive Committee 
Egbert E. Bonner Wm. Allen Butler^ Jr. 

Henry E. Davis John A. Hegeman 

Henry L. Harrison Charles E. Smith 

Record Committee 
Henry L. Harrison Edward D. Lyon 

William J. Henderson Henry M. Eussell 



THE CIRCULAR OF INQUIRY 

'76 PEINCETON 
1876-1906 

His head, 
Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, 
Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, 
But strong for service still and unimpaired. 

COWPEB. 

1. Name with all titles. Address in full. 

2. Personal history (fully) since last reported: 

a. professional or business. 

b. literary, publications. 

c. political. 

d. philanthropic, charitable, reform move- 
ments interested or engaged in. 

e. church membership, offices held, work en- 
gaged or interested in. 

f. honors received. 

g. club membership, 

3. If married since last report, give, date and maiden 
name of wife. 

4. Children : 

a. names and dates of birth. 

b. if any have died, give date. 

c. college or school attended and course pur- 
sued. 

d. marriage, with date. 

5. Grandchildren, names and dates of birth. 

6. Can you suggest anything that will improve the so- 
cial or moral condition of students at Princeton? 



PREFACE 

TWO things will, it is believed, appear from a perusal 
of the reports here gathered : the splendid "work in 
the world" that the Class is doing in various de- 
partments of activity and influence, and the deep affec- 
tion felt by its members for the Class and for the dear 
old college. One of them is moved to "wonder if any of 
the other classes entertains the same loyalty of feeling 
and affection for each other as "76 does/' There is no 
other explanation available of the return to Princeton 
last June of so large a number of the Class, a number 
larger than in any previous Commencement week. 

The remark of an alumnus of another university is 
pertinent: "It speaks volumes for Princeton class 
spirit that its organization holds thirty years after 
graduation." 

As heretofore, reticence marks many reports, so that 
it is not possible to answer accurately the question fre- 
quently propounded at the Eeunion: "How many 
grandchildren are there?" Thirteen have been reported, 
but it is quite certain that there are more. 

Princeton University is growing; the tutorial system 
is attracting the attention of the educational world; its 
buildings increase in number and dignity. But with 
all the changes since 1876 it still holds to the faith 
of the fathers, to the value of liberal culture, to the 
necessity of a broad and solid foundation. Never was 
our Alma Mater more worthy of our affection and loyal 
support. 



PERRON 






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PERSONAL HISTORY 

DUDLEY S. ANNESS, 

215 Herkimer Street, BrooMyn, New YorJc. 
No report;, in spite of earnest solicitation, 

HON. J. FEANK BALL, 

office, 838 Market Street; residence, 1019 Park 
Place, Wilmington, Delaware. 
Bloody is practising law in Wilmington, and has a 
few subsidiary jobs to fill out his spare time. He is a 
trustee of the Workhouse, a member of the Board of 
Associated Charities, of the Advisory Board of the Del- 
aware Industrial School for Girls, of the Board of 
Managers of the Ferris Industrial School, and of the 
Board of Trustees of the Central Presbyterian Church. 
" I am still married to the same wife as formerly, thank 
God," he says. He has two children living, Frances 
Ethel and Hannah Dorothy. Ethel is a graduate of 
Wilson College in the class of 1906. She took the full 
classical course, just as her father did before her. Dor- 
othy is at the Friends' School in Wilmington, and will 
enter college in the class of '08. Bloody has not yet 
acquired grandchildren. In regard to the undergrad- 
uates he says, "Let them adopt the manners and cus- 
toms of '76 and be natural." Bloody's report was so 
laconic that this is about all that could be got out of it. 
The rest of the boys, however, will be glad to know 

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that their classmate changes very little and that he is 
the same good fellow that he always was. 

EEV. JAMES MOREISON BARKLEY, D.D., 

IJfO Hancoch Avenue West, Detroit, Michigan. 

Bark calls the circular an examination paper, and 
answers the first query with this : " Latch-string out 
for all '76 hoys." 

" My personal history since the last inquisition has 
been but a continuation of what it then was, I am still 
pastor of the Forest Avenue Presbyterian Church, now 
well on into my twentieth year. It is such a jealous 
mistress — is this pastoral office — that it has left me 
no time for literary pursuits or productions, save such 
as are evoked in the ministry. Politically, I am still 
of the same way of thinking as of yore. I am much in- 
terested in some of our local philanthropic, charitable 
and reform movements, but not in a way to be worth 
special mention, save such as is implied in answers to 
later questions. My church membership, etc., is suffi- 
ciently indicated above. There are rumors of certain 
honors to be conferred in the near future. But they are 
yet an X quantity. TsTo other ^semi-lunar fardels.' I 
am a member of the Detroit Presbyterian Men's Club 
and of the Detroit Municipal League, a civic reform 
organization in our city. 

3. ''In just one month we two shall complete twenty- 
seven years of happy wedded life. No need to be 'mar- 
ried since last report.' 

"Children are: 

"Earl Con well. Health compelled his abandonment 
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(class of '04) when about one-third through the course 
in classics. He took a special chemical course in the 
M. A. C, and is now within one year of the degree of 
D.D.S. in the Detroit Dental College. He was a mem- 
ber of the Triangle Club at Princeton and is now a fine 
baritone soloist, much in request. 

"Marjorie Agnes is a graduate of the Detroit Young 
Ladies' Seminary; also post-graduate work, same insti- 
tution. Studied at Michigan Young Woman's Semi- 
nary. Has been in editorial work on Detroit dailies, 
and has contributed several stories to leading magazines 
and is now on the staff of one of these publications. 
She was married Sept. 26, 1905, to Franklyn Evans 
McClure, M.D., Parsons College, '99, and Eush Medi- 
cal, Chicago, '04. 

"Mary Gladys is now in her second year in the 
Classical Course, Detroit Central High School. 

"Grandchildren? What! A young fellow like me! 
0, no. General. 

6. "Well, no, not at this distance. Am not closely 
enough identified with dear old Nassau to say intelli- 
gently what could improve the situation. I have some 
opinions on the subject, but they may be wide of the 
mark, so will not venture them." 

Jim's concluding remark is : "God bless dear old '76 !" 

His reference to honors possibly to be conferred in the 
future was an allusion to his candidacy for the post of 
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
Church. Bark Avas not elected, but he made a fine run. 
His portraits, printed in many Western papers, show 
that he is much better and younger looking than he 

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was thirty years ago. He owns a cosy summer cottage 
at Lake Orion noW;, and in answer to a query as to 
whether it was true that he was to seek fresh field and 
pastorate new, answered: "No, sir, I have not re- 
signed. Was called unanimously to Bay City, Mich., 
First Church, but declined the call. People here seemed 
pleased. Our work prospers here and we are happy." 

Barkley received first prize from The Church Econo- 
mist, of New York, for an article on "How I Would 
Spend $1,500,000 in Developing Princeton Theological 
Seminary." 

The Interior says that during Barkiey's "pastorate of 
nearly twenty years in Detroit, he has gathered into the 
church almost a thousand members, of whom there re- 
main to-day more than five hundred to make up one of 
the most aggressive and intense Christian bodies in the 
Michigan metropolis." 

EEV. SYLVESTER W. BEACH, 

26 Library Place, Princeton, New Jersey. 

"Variety" came back from Paris to America last De- 
cember to become pastor of the old First Presbyterian 
Church of Princeton. Here is his own story: 

"Shortly after my last report in the Eecord of 1901, 
I was treated to a surprise in a call to Paris. Two 
thousand American students in the Latin Quarter made 
an irresistible appeal, and a leave of absence for six 
months, generously granted by . the First Church, 
Bridgeton, N. J., developed into a residence of four 
years in Paris. 'The Students' Atelier Reunions' 
proved a most successful expedient for interesting the 

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students in religion and establishing a national and so- 
cial solidarity among them. Sunday evenings our stu- 
dio, seating three hundred and fifty, was crowded to 
the doors. These weekly reunions formed a center of 
moral and religious influence reaching out into every 
part of the Quarter; and there are few persons in the 
American colony who have not in some way borne wit- 
ness to the importance and usefulness of the movement. 
But the Sunday evening meetings opened the way to 
direct and personal work among the students, more in- 
teresting and fruitful. Nowhere can there be found 
men of finer qualities of brain and heart than among 
the Americans of the Latin Quarter, Paris. But one 
must know them well to recognize and appreciate the 
best that is in them. Personal and close contact in all 
the offices of friendship and sympathy lay at the bottom 
of what success I had in the Paris work. 

The other side of the Seine made claim upon part 
of my time and energy, as I was associated in the pasto- 
rate of the American Church on Eue de Berri. I also 
served on the Executive Committee of the McAll Mis- 
sion, v^^hich involved a long business seance once a week. 
But in the natural course of events the duty of return- 
ing to America became imperative, and the transition 
from Paris to Princeton was as congenial as it was un- 
expected. Had human events been subject to my own 
control, I would not have ordered otherwise. It was 
indeed the greatest wrench of my life to leave the Paris 
students and all the work and associations that endeared 
us to the place and people. But the 'kindly Light' 
that has led me back to Princeton has also led another 



into my place and work in Paris, and the interests there 
seem to suffer no loss in the change. 

"If so much egotism as this recital involves is justified 
by the order of our great and good 'General,' who is al- 
ways saying 'Be personal,' I am quite sure that I will 
be pardoned one further personality. It is to say that 
in Paris, as everywhere and always, the gentle and gra- 
cious helpfulness of my wife has been the largest hu- 
man factor in whatever success has crowned my labors. 
Her wise counsel and unfailing sympathy and trust have 
been my inspiration and strength." 

Charles Wagner, author of "The Simple Life," wrote 
thus of Beach's Paris work: 

"One place where I shall see American youth, and 
which I intend to visit often, is the 'Students' Atelier 
Eeunion,' of Pastor Sylvester W. Beach, Boulevard 
Montparnasse. I mention this rendezvous on purpose, 
for all America is interested in it, and in the course 
of the year I shall have occasion to speak of it from 
another point of view. America sends annually to 
Paris thousands of youths and young girls, there to per- 
fect themselves in the fine arts. Almost all of them 
live in the Latin Quarter, of which a part close to the 
Boulevard Montparnasse might be called the American 
■Quarter. Painters, sculptors, musicians, architects — 
"these young people live here often alone. Their inex- 
perience has much need of support. Pastor Beach, 
originally a Philadelphian, represents to them the ab- 
sent fatherland. He interests himself in them, tries to 
group them, and every Sunday evening gets them to- 
gether in an immense studio rented from a painter for 

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the purpose. Imagine a studio under the roofs, a sort 
of large and comfortable loft sheltered from the noises 
of the street. There you may hear hymns sung, good 
music and a healthy and consoling doctrine preached 
in the short sermons, in which Mr. Beach excels. Many 
young hearts, and often hearts that have drifted away 
from the church, have found there salutary contact with 
the better life. Great good is done in this loft. Young 
people are happy to meet each other among children 
of the same country. They fete the souvenirs of the 
fatherland at Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., and create 
a comer of America in the heart of Paris .'^ 

'Tariety^' was called to the First Presbyterian Church 
of Princeton in November, 1905, was received into the 
Presbytery of New Brunswick in January, 1906, and 
was installed February 28, 1906, "B." Greene assist- 
ing in the service. 

At the annual meeting of the American McAll Asso- 
ciation, held in Minneapolis, May, 1906, Beach deliv- 
ered an address, sketching in a most lucid manner the 
various steps that have led to a separation of Church 
and State in France, and showing the effect it will have 
upon Protestanism and Catholicism in that country. 

HENEY PUSH BIDDLE. Died January 3, 1877. 
[See Eecoed No. IV., page 27.] 

LIEUT. JONATHAN WILLIAMS BIDDLE. Died 
September 30, 1877. [See Eecoed No. IV., page 
28.] 

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EGBERT EDWIN BOKNEE, 

office, 26 Cortlandt Street; residence, 563 Madison 
Avenue, New York City. 

The Czar of the Class accounts for himself as follows : 

"In the fall of 1901 I retired from the publishing 
business, and in the spring of 1903 I became the Secre- 
tary and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Cement Com- 
pany, the works of which are situated at Bath, Pa., and 
the sales offices at 26 Cortlandt Street, New York City. 

"In politics I am still a Eepublican. However, I do 
feel that our legislators need a little enlightenment on 
the tariff question. The absurd duty on art is a great 
detriment to our artists, especially young artists. If 
foreign art could be admitted free our artists would not 
have to go abroad to look at it; nor can I see any ra- 
tional ground w^hy Canadian wood should not come into 
this country free, or practically free, and thus save the 
devastation of our own forests. 

"I am still a member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyte- 
rian Church, of which good Dr. John Hall was the 
pastor for many years. 

"I am a member of the University, Princeton, Lotus 
and Fulton Clubs, and also the Knollwood Country Club 
of Westchester. In Princeton I am an associate gradu- 
ate member of the Ivy Club and a member of the Nas- 
sau Club. 

"The status of my family is the same as last reunion, 
namely : a wife, three boys, the oldest twenty, the next 
sixteen and the next fourteen, and a daughter eleven 
years of age. 

"Now, as to question No. 5. Our Siecretary has al- 



ways been very polite, deferential and modest, and just 
why he should put such an impertinent question I can 
not understand. No, sir, I am not a grandfather, and 
I do not expect to be for some time to come. 

"During the present year at Princeton there has been 
a very beneficial work started in organizing an efficient 
system of properly feeding the refreshment class. The 
present Curator, Mr. Bunn, has this matter in charge, 
and I am sure if he successfully carries out his ideas it 
will greatly tend to improve the social, moral and physi- 
cal condition of each succeeding refreshment class." 

Bonner was on hand for the Eeunion from its first 
minute to its last, and he presided over everything with 
his customary efficiency. 

HAEEINGTON BEOWK, 

J^875 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California. 
"Micky" answers the questions in due order. 
"Micky is my only title. 

a. "Oil refining, increased from two to five and a 
half acres, from 200 to 600 barrels a day. 

b. "Not any. Treatise on asphalt and best kind for 
paving, which, when learned of by the trust, drove it to 
high timber, thus obviating the necessity for publica- 
tion. 

c. "Always been a Baptist and will be till I die, 
'fed, you know, on Baptist pie.' 

f. "Short. Honors uneven. 

"University, Princeton and George Washington Uni- 
versity Alumni Clubs, Los Angeles Country and Tam- 

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many. The name of the latter has been changed to 
Democratic. 

3. "Thank God;, same old wife. 

4. "The same fine children as at last report, all 
alive and kicking. The eldest graduated three years ago 
from the Marlborough School. The other two girls at- 
tend the same school, from which Lucie will graduate 
this year. The two boys attend public school. 

6. "Yes, secret societies and more strenuous foot- 
ball." 

While two of Harry's daughters, the Misses Adelaide 
and Eleanor, were driving in the afternoon of July 5, 
1906, the clanging bell of a street car frightened the 
horses and caused them to run away. Both young la- 
dies were thrown out and Miss Eleanor was so badly 
injured that she died while on the way to the hos- 
pital. 

JOHN P. BROWN, 

care of Charles Scribner's Sons,, 153-157 Fifth 
Avenue, New York City; residence, YonJcers, N. Y. 
Jai Brown, as usual, is retiring. He writes : "I do 
not see how I can help you further for the Class 
Eecord than I have done already. My line of work does 
not permit of anything spectacular, nor am I particu- 
larly burdened with having honors thrust upon me. 
Steady employment, with moderate progress and con- 
genial surroundings, about cover the conditions. You 
have the record of all my children except the youngest, 
Eleanor Beattie, who was born July 6, 1901." 

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HON. OREN BEITT BEOWN, 

Dayton, Ohio. 

"Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Second 
District of Ohio. 

"1 have been on the bench since July, 1896. My 
present term expires next November, and I am requested 
by the bar and the citizens generally to accept another 
term. This I have not determined. 

"The answers to the different sub-heads arranged 
alphabetically are about the same as in my former 
report; I doubt if any would be of particular in- 
terest. 

"Same wife — still living — both of us happy together. 

"No children. 

"No grandchildren. 

6. "I have no suggestions to make, but keep in touch 
with the President and some of the faculty of Prince- 
ton. 

"Last summer Mrs. Brown and I took a European 
trip for about four months. I was very sorry to have 
missed 'Variety' Beach in Paris. We stopped at the 
same hotel at which he lived and found a number of 
his friends. He had just left for America. Saw 
'Eeddy' Bonner a few minutes on my return — sorry to 
have missed you. Had a couple of days' visit with 'Big 
Van' in Philadelphia last winter." 

"Oby" was to have attended the Eeunion, but in 
cranking his automobile he received a blow on the nose 
which put him out of business for the time. He was 
not seriously hurt, but was not pretty enough to leave 
home. He was greatly missed by the boys. 

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WILLIAM ALLEN" BUTLEE, JE., 

ofjice, dli- Wall Street; residence, 30 East Seventy- 
second Street, New York City. 

"I have continued in the practice of the law since 
the last Eecord. Owing to the death of my father in 
1903, I have come into new responsibilities. My law 
firm is now Butler, Notman & Mynderse. I am Presi- 
dent of the Law^yers' Club, 120 Broadway; member 
of the University, Princeton, Shinnecock Hills, Meadow 
and Southampton Clubs, of the American Bar Associ- 
ation and of the New York City and State Bar Associ- 
ations. Director of the Employers' Liability Assurance 
Corporation of London, director and member of the 
Finance Committee of the Hanover Fire Insurance 
Company of New York, the Century Building Com- 
pany, and Sanitary Building and Inspection Company; 
President of the Board of Trustees of Madison Avenue 
Presbyterian Church, Treasurer of the Church Exten- 
sion Committee of the Presbytery of New York, Chair- 
man of Admiral Taylor's Section U. S. Navy League, 
Fellow of the American Fine Arts Society, member of 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Mu- 
seum of Natural History. 

4. "William Allen is in the freshman class, '09, at 
Princeton; Lyman and Charles are at the Hill School, 
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, preparing for Princeton. All 
are taking the academic course. 

"My grandchildren are not causing me any anxiety 
as yet." 

Billy emphatically denies the report of his death, pub- 
lished in the Alumni WeeTcly of Feb. 6, 1904, 

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George Washixcitox 



EEV. AETHUK B. CHAFFEE, A.B., A.M., D.D., 

Marshall, Texas. 

"Much the same old thing. Have been President of 
this school for five years." 

"This school," it appears from an accompanying cir- 
cular, is Bishop College, which has the following de- 
partments : theological, college, academic, normal, gram- 
mar, industrial, nurse-training, music. It was es- 
tablished in 1881 by the American Baptist Home Mis- 
sion Society of New York for the training of colored 
boys and girls in Christian living, scholarship, and good 
citizenship. About 5,000 students have gone from it to 
help their race. Starting with a few acres of land and 
a small building, it now has twenty-two acres and six 
brick buildings used exclusively for school purposes, be- 
sides a steam plant, laundry, barns, shops and several 
dwellings. The faculty numbers twenty-seven, about 
half being colored. There are about six hundred stu- 
dents. 

"Children: Harold Putnam, A.B., Denison Univer- 
sity, Granville, Ohio, will graduate from the Eochester 
Theological Seminary in 1907. 

"Eleanor Harriet is at present a junior in Denison 
University and Secretary to the Dean of Shepardson 
College, of the same University. 

"James Foster graduated at Denison with the degree 
of A.B. in 1905, and during the past year has been with 
the Western Electric Company. 

"Arthur B., Jr., is a junior at Denison and joint edi- 
tor of The Denisonian. 

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"Laurence Eric is in Doane Academy, Denison Uni- 
versity." 

EEV. WILLIAM NESBITT CHAMBEES, 

Adana, Turkey-in-Asia. {Address for hooks, pa- 
pers, etc., British Post-office, Constantinople, 
Turkey. ) 
"Since my last report I have continued in connection 
with this station (Adana) of what is designated 'The 
Mission to Central Turkey.' The territory of the Mis- 
sion corresponds largely with what Paul, in Acts 15 :41, 
designates as 'Syria and Cilicia.' Antioch, where the 
disciples were first called Christian, is just across the 
Gulf of Issus from us, and Tarsus, the birthplace of 
Paul the Apostle, is about twenty-five miles to the 
southwest of us. I am the only male missionary resid- 
ing in Adana, and have in supervision the work of the 
station and so the superintendence of ten churches and 
the schools connected with them. Dr. Christie resides 
in Tarsus and has in charge St. Paul's College, of which 
I am one of the directors. 

"Historically this district is most interesting. It is 
bounded on the west and north by the Taurus Moun- 
tains, which are pierced by the celebrated Cilician Gates 
Pass, on the east by the Amanus Mountains, between 
which and the sea, which bounds us on the south, lies 
the other celebrated pass called the Syrian Gates. One 
of the great trade routes from the East to the West 
leads through these passes, so that this district has re- 
sounded once and again with the tread of the armed 
hosts of Xenophon and Alexander, of Cyrus and Xerxes, 

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of Eoman and Saracen, of Armenian and Crusader, of 
Egyptian and Turk. It has also re-echoed the thrilling 
words of the great Apostle Paul as he proclaimed the 
gospel of life to its people. 

"The modern growth of evangelical Christianity is 
illustrated by this: the evangelical church in this city 
is to celebrate its semi-centennial this year in April. 
It was organized with five members in a congregation 
of twenty people. It now has 363 members in a com- 
munity of nearly 1,000, and over 400 pupils in schools. 
It contributes $1,600 a year for the support of its work. 
This indicates the growth in this city. I have no sort 
of doubt that Cilicia will resound with the gospel mes- 
sage once again as it did in the days of Paul, 

"Our son, Talcott, was attending school in Switzer- 
land during the winter of 1901-2. In the Easter vaca- 
tion he went on a tramp with a school-companion — a 
young Swiss of his own age. Why they took the road 
they did will never be known, but, attempting the im- 
possible, they fell from an icy path over an Alpine prec- 
ipice on April 9, 1902. Their bodies were recovered 
nine days later. I used to have fond visions of my boy 
at Princeton. He entered a higher university, and I 
have no doubt is increasing in knowledge and all the 
graces that make humanity sublime. 

"Kate is making her college preparation in Miss Ir- 
win's School in Philadelphia. She had opportunity 
of visiting Princeton the other day. I was interested to 
hear her opinion, to the effect that Princeton 'is all 
right.' She is looking forward to Bryn Mawr, having 
passed her entrance examinations in June. She also 

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took the foils at the fencing tournament at Drexel in 

Philadelphia recently. 
**Most cordial salutations to all the fellows." 
Chambers arrived in this country August 22, 1903, 

on a year's furlough, during which he met a number of 

the Class, and saw a Yale-Princeton football game at 

New Haven. 

EEV. CHAELES B. CHAPIN, A.M., D.D., 

588 West Avenue, Rochester, New YorTc. 

*^hen my last report was given, I was the pastor 
of the Hamilton Grange Eeformed Church, New York 
City. Two years ago I resigned that charge and ac- 
cepted a call to the pastorate of the Westminster Pres- 
byterian Church, Eochester, N. Y. 

"I have written some for the religious press. 

"I took the chief part in the organization and devel- 
opment of the Guild for the Crippled Children of the 
Poor in New York City. 

"A year ago I organized the Eochester Lawn Tennis 
Club and became its President. It is now a large and 
flourishing organization. Last summer I beat the under- 
graduate champion of Cornell — a pretty good record 
for an old fellow! 

"My one son is now a freshman in the Eochester Uni- 
versity, taking the pre-technical Scientific Course." 

Charley was pastor of the Hamilton Grange Ee- 
formed Church for eleven and a half years, where he 
did a noble work, contending with serious difficulties, 
but keeping his congregation together and adding to its 
numbers, and at the same time interesting himself in 

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the work of his denomination and in charitable enter- 
prises. Keports from his new field are very gratifying, 
as during his first year there he received 109 new 
members, more than half on confession and the ma- 
jority adults. 

This last spring Chapin suffered the loss of his wife, 
who died May 17, after a prolonged illness. He has the 
sincere sympathy of all in this great bereavement. 

EEV. HAEEISON CLAEKE, A.B., A.M., 

North 26th Street, Boulder, Colorado. 
Clarke writes briefly : "Since last report I have been 
living here, and for the past three years have been en- 
gaged in the fruit-growing business. I am a member 
of the Presbytery of Boulder. Children the same as 
at last report. Grace Darling, the eldest, was gradu- 
ated from the State Preparatory School in 1904 and was 
the Greek salutatorian in a class of forty-four. She is 
now studying for an A.B. degree in the class of '09, 
State University of Colorado. Harrison Barnes, our 
third, is taking the classical course in the State Prepar- 
atory School, class of '09. I should like to see dear old 
Princeton once more, and also the boys, that we might 
speak face to face. But this is among the impossi- 
bilities." 



W. A. CLELAND, A.M., 

532 and 534- Chamber of Commerce Building, 
Portland, Oregon. 
"There is nothing noteworthy in my personal history 
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since the date of my last report. I have continued in 
the practice of the law and as yet am not in the circum- 
stances mentioned in the last paragraph of your circu- 
lar letter. As Secretary of the Portland Commercial 
Club, which office I held last year, I had the pleasure 
of renewing my acquaintance with John G. Miller, of 
Chicago, and during a very pleasant — though too brief 
— visit with him heard much of interest as to the mem- 
bers of '76. 

"I had expected that the Lewis & Clark Fair here 
last year w^ould attract at least some of the members of 
'76, but, if so, they did not make themselves known to 
me. 

"Under sub-divisions 3, 4 and 5, matters still remain 
in statu quo. 

6. "Too far removed by lapse of time and distance 
to offer suggestions." 

EEV. AETHUE B. CONGEE, 

Rosemont, Pennsylvania. 

Arthur Conger is still with the same church, and is 
happy in his work. He sent a far too brief report. His 
record is, however, pretty much the same as it was the 
last time. His son, Arthur McCrea, is taking the clas- 
sical course at Princeton, class of '09. Conger is a 
member of the Merion Cricket Club, and since the last 
Eecord has put forth two works, "Eeligion for the 
Time" (1903) and "The Christian Altar" (1904). In 
commenting on the first of these two books the Chris- 
tian Intelligencer said : 

"This book contains six conferences on natural relig- 

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ion, and four appended essays on those subjects which 
modern attack has emphasized, such as higher criticism, 
inspiration and catholic dogma. The book is an ear- 
nest and scholarly defence of the fundamental positions 
of Christianity against the attacks of modern material- 
istic philosophy and agnosticism. The clear thought 
and well-defined position and the graceful style and an 
occasional gleam of humor make it interesting reading 
as well as profitable. But many of his readers will not 
be able to follow him in his advocacy of the sole author- 
ity of the Anglican Church as an interpreter and trans- 
mitter of the word of truth." 

ALFEED C. COUESEN, 

Huntington, Long Island, New York. 

"I gave you a full report last time, and as I do not 
change the essentials of my life every five years, I really 
have nothing to add. My business and prospects never 
were so favorable and altogether satisfactory, and as the 
milk of human kindness will permeate the toughest skin 
at fifty, I am smiling rather better than formerly. 

"But I gave the Class my message, and it had as be- 
nign an effect as a drop of water upon a duck's back. I 
was terribly sincere about it, and if they do not 'see it' 
I merely prefer to expend my energies upon those to 
whom some slight good may result. The college, the 
church, the press — all of the great motors of capitalist 
civilization — ^naturally are adjusted to the interests of 
their owners. I condemn them utterly. A social gath- 
ering at Princeton, to one of my understanding, would 
be as a symposium of hell. I have talked with your 

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Workers' man (I forget his name, the one who teaches 
'sociology'), and he is tommyrot. Every avenue and 
feature of it is of a piece — 'Let us keep to ourselves 
the mental, spiritual and physical good of this life, and 
let us charitably contribute of these stolen advantages a 
small percentage to ameliorate the condition of the dis- 
inherited.' The ergo of this is writ large, and we have 
our McCurdys on the one hand and starvation of hu- 
man beings from India across the continent to your 
own door. The whole thing is sulphurous, the revolt 
of humanity is well upon us, and I welcome the final 
cataclysm as I would anticipate the smiling dawn after 
a black night of hideous storm. 

"May your God, if there is one, bless you, and may 
He put His almighty heel upon the face of your civiliza- 
tion." 

BEYANT 0. COWAN, 

5035 Grand Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. 

Cowan, with his customary brevity, writes : "A short 
horse is soon curried and a brief tale soon told. In 
April, 1901, I accepted the position of Assistant Secre- 
tary of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association, 
and am still holding that position. I sold my herd of 
shorthorn cattle and my farm in Missouri and am now 
at 5035 Grand Boulevard, Chicago. 

"I have no literary ability and no political ambition, 
hence no honors to report. The names of my three 
daughters were given in a former report. The two liv- 
ing are Cora E. and Florence J. The former has just 
finished five years of study at the Chicago Art Insti- 

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tute, and the latter is now a freshman in Chicago Uni- 
versity." 

SAMUEL CEAIG COWAET, 

Central National Banh Building, Freehold, New 
Jersey. 

"As to my personal history since last reported, in my 
professional career I have been reasonably successful, 
and, in fact, have about all the work that I can com- 
fortably attend to. I have been able to impress upon 
the courts of this State the justice of the claims of my 
clients, with the result that I have won a number of 
important cases. 

"My literary publications have consisted entirely of 
legal briefs, whose chief characteristic was their length. 

"In political life I continue in the ranks of the Re- 
publican party, and have been a faithful supporter and 
admirer of Theodore Eoosevelt and his policies. 

"As to reform movements, I have taken an active in- 
terest in organizing an Anti-Bribery League, which pro- 
poses purifying the political atmosphere in this State, 
while at the same time making it unhealthy either to 
buy or sell votes. 

"In church work, I have been several times elected 
an active elder, and also superintendent of the Sab- 
bath-school, of the Pirst Presbyterian Church of Free- 
hold. Our church has the rotary system and elects an 
elder for a three year term of active service. 

"I have three times represented the State of New Jer- 
sey in the National Congress of the Society of Sons 
of the American Revolution. The only club of which 

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I am a member is the Freehold Golf and Country Club^, 
of which I am one of the Board of Governors. 

"In the winter and spring of 1905, I went on a three 
months' tour to the Orient, visiting the Madeira Is- 
lands, Spain, Algeria, Malta, France, Italy, Greece, 
Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, England, Ireland and Wales. 
I traveled about sixteen thousand miles and gained a 
fairly good idea of the countries mentioned and of the 
customs and peculiarities of the people. One of the 
most interesting parts of the trip was a horseback ride 
from the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem, through the most 
picturesque mountains and valleys of Samaria and Gali- 
lee. We were six days in the saddle. My traveling 
companion was Col. Charles J. Wright, Principal and 
owner of the New Jersey Military Academy, in Free- 
hold." 



BEODIE JACKMAN CEAWFOED. Died July 27, 
1883. [See Eecord No. IV., page 39.] 

CLAEENCE CUNINGHAM, . 

Charleston, South Carolina. 

No report. A request to the postmaster of Charles- 
ton brought this reply, which shows a lofty standard of 
oflBcial honor: 

"Eespectfully returned, with the information that all 
mail arriving at this office for Mr. Cuningham is sent 
to his address, vi^hich, being records of the Government, 
we are unable to disclose." 

The following letter will doubtless be of interest : 

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South Carolina's N"eed. 
Tq the Editor of the New Yorh Times: 

While as a citizen of South Carolina, with her inter- 
ests very much at heart, I am glad that her recent move- 
ment toward bringing about immigration into the Com- 
monwealth is attracting attention in other parts of the 
Federal Union, I am sorry that the true purport of this 
movement is not exactly understood beyond her doors. 

From a few observations reproduced from your jour- 
nal by this morning's Charleston News and Courier I 
conclude you have not fully grasped the meaning of our 
immigration policy. In speaking of the difficulties that 
will confront us in securing immigration you say: 

"Probably the chief obstacle will be the fact that 
agricultural work has so largely fallen into the hands 
of the blacks. They form the largest body of workmen 
on whom the farmer immigrant must depend, and the 
prejudice against the race will necessarily tend to repel 
white immigrants of the farm labor class." 

We do not expect the farmer immigrants we hope to 
bring among us to depend upon the blacks as their 
workmen, for we expect the class of immigrants we 
bring here to do their own work, and that is the chief 
reason we seek to bring them. While I am ready to 
concede that even the people of the Eastern States, not 
to speak of the people of the other parts of the Union, 
are prejudiced against the negro, I am not ready to ad- 
mit that the tillers of the soil in Europe are. After 
some years' sojourn abroad, I concluded that the coun- 
try people there knew nothing of the Southern negro, 
except as some sort of a superior being about whom 

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somebody went to war, and as to a prejudice against 
him, it was always for him. It is well that the world 
should understand that we do not want white immigra- 
tion among us in order to supplant the negro ; we want 
it merely to supplement him. . 

"Another trouble," you say, "will be the fact that 
there is no foreign country whose people are inclined 
to emigrate, with any considerable number of men fa- 
miliar with the raising of cotton, which will be for a 
long time the staple product/' 

We do not want the new settlers to come to our State 
as cotton planters; we have negroes in sufficient num- 
bers to plant all the cotton the State need raise; and 
should the new settlers find it to their interest to culti- 
vate cotton, it is so simple a matter they will compre- 
hend the whole subject in one season. 

Unfortunately South Carolina has not much public 
land, but she has many thousand acres of virgin soil, 
as well as of fine abandoned lands — abandoned for want 
of labor to work them — to be bought at equitable prices 
and on easy conditions. It is these lands we want to 
people with intelligent, hard-working, sober, thrifty, 
ingenious husbandmen, who will turn them into fields 
of grain, into orchards, into pastures, and into truck 
farms, and who will also plant trees in places where 
the forests have been depleted. True, cotton is our 
staple product, but we do not get enough in cash for it 
to enable us to buy in return all the breadstuffs, meats, 
horsepower, and implements we are obliged to have and 
for which we are obliged to go to other parts to get at a 
high price even though they could be produced at home 

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at small expense. Our great need is diversified crops 
and industries, and the only way to effect this is to bring 
in a foreign labor that has the genius, inclination, apti- 
tude for such. 

Money seeking investment could not be more profit- 
ably placed than in the purchase of such lands as I de- 
scribe. It would secure a higher rate of interest than 
it now secures through the usual modes of investment 
in the great money centres. We have a variety of re- 
sources as great as, if not greater than, Texas, and are 
much better watered, and have better water. You ad- 
vise us to go to Texas to get the newly imported German 
cotton raisers of that State to come among us. Texas 
needs her own. Should, however, those you mention 
choose to come here, we will gladly receive them, but it 
is urgent upon us to go to the great Northwest or to 
Europe to get the immigrants we need. 

Clarence Cuningham. 

Charleston, S. C, Nov. 20, 1903. 

HON. HENRY EDGAE DAVIS, LL.D., 

office, Jenifer Building; residence, The Concord, 
Washington, District of Columbia. 

«A.B. Princeton, 1876; A.M. Princeton, 1879; LL.B. 
Columbian (now George Washington) University, 
Washington, D. C, 1878; LL.M. same, 1879; LL.D. 
National University, Washington, D.C., 1898. 

"I have continued the practice of the law exclusively. 
In connection therewith I was professor of Common 
Law and Equity Pleading and the Law of Evidence in 
the National University, Washington, D. C, until the 

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close of the year 1904, when I resigned after a contin- 
uous professorship of fifteen years in the Columbian 
and National Universities on the subjects named, and, 
in addition, Common Law Practice and the History 
of the Law. 

"Since the last report I have written some fugitive 
articles, and in June, 1904, delivered the annual address 
to the Pennsylvania Bar Association at its tenth an- 
nual convention at Cape May, New Jersey, my subject 
being 'The Law Spirit: Its Sources and Its Sway/ 
Besides the tremendous impression which my address 
naturally and necessarily made, the most conspicuous 
feature of the meeting was found in the large number 
of Princeton men on the Pennsylvania bench in attend- 
ance. 

"From the first nomination of 'The boy orator of the 
Platte' and 'peerless' custodian and watchdog of the 
interests of the nation, to wit, William Jennings Bryan, 
in 1896, down to the nomination of the present impe- 
rial ruler of the Eepublic and general overseer of the 
world at large, in 1904, I affiliated with the Eepublican 
party, but I went into the campaign of 1904 as that 
party's opponent. My present political attitude may 
be characterized, in the language of the hustings, as 
'Where are we at ? And if not, why not ?' 

"My philanthropic and charitable efforts have been ex- 
clusively along private lines, although I realize that 
true economy in those directions consists in more or 
less conspicuous association, chiefly under official guise, 
with professional, not to say ostentatious, organizations. 
The only reform movement in which I have been con- 

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cerned has been aimed at trying to make my acquain- 
tances recognize the fact that entirely too much trouble 
is taken about too many things. 

"Nominally I am a member of the Protestant Episco- 
pal Church, having been admitted to its communion at 
the mature age of twelve. I was baptized a Eoman 
Catholic; was reared an Episcopalian; was educated at 
a Presbyterian college; married a Unitarian wife; and 
am now a member of the well-known Cosmos Club of 
this city, noted for its absolute freedom from adhesion 
to or countenance of anything denominational. I sup- 
pose, therefore, that I may be considered a very good 
specimen of the theological club-sandwich. 

"Since the last report I have received no honor ex- 
cept that of being permitted to pursue, undisturbed, the 
even tenor of my way. 

"1 am a member of the Metropolitan, Cosmos, Uni- 
versity and Chevy Chase Clubs of this city. 

"The lady whom I honored with my hand in matri- 
mony, in the language of the late Lew Wallace, 'still 
abides with me.' 

4. " 'Nameless here forever more.' 

5. "Ditto, only more so. 

6. "As I do not know the present social or moral con- 
dition of students at Princeton, I file an exception to 
the inquiry on this point." 

At a dinner of the University Club of Washington 
to Secretary Taft in February, "Jeff" got back at one 
of the speakers in fine style. This speaker, a son of 
Old Eli, said that Mr. Taft had been made Governor of 
the Philippines because he was a Yale man. "Jeff" 

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declared that this was unquestionably true, because it 
had been deemed wisest to introduce the civilization of 
the United States into the islands as gradually as 
possible. 

EEV. PEOF. COLLINS DENNY, 

Vanderhilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. 

"In addition to the usual claims on my time there 
have been many extra and heavy drafts during the last 
few months. I have not written in answer to your 
printed inquiries solely because I had nothing to write. 
I am fully in the Apostolic succession in one respect, 
'silver and gold' of interesting, particularly personal, 
information, 'have I none'; and I am out of the said 
succession because I cannot add, 'such as I have give I 
unto thee.' 

"My life for the past few years has gone on quietly, 
without special incident. I have five children, the 
youngest seven years old; the eldest, finding another 
man whose home she seems to have had more interest in 
adorning than in continuing to ornament mine, has left 
me for that other man. My two oldest children have 
finished their courses here, having taken their B.A. and 
M.A. degrees. One took in addition her B.S. degree, 
and the other made Phi Beta Kappa. A third has a 
year of preparatory w^ork before entering the university. 

"Nearly every summer I take a church during vaca- 
tion. This year I have McKendree Church in this city. 
I greatly enjoy preaching, particularly when I have 
anything to preach. 

"I am at a point where honors mean responsibilities, 

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and the former are sunk in the latter. I also find it 
increasingly embarrassing to write about myself, there 
are so many other really good subjects, and life is short. 
I have not forgotten, nor have I lost interest in, the old 
boys of Princeton, nor in the college that did so much 
for me." 

REV. ELLIOTT LAURENCE DRESSER, 

Genoa, Cayuga County, New YorJc. 

"In September, 1902, I resigned my charge at Diver- 
non, Illinois, and moved to Oberlin, Ohio. I have been 
engaged in evangelistic work in Ohio and New York 
State since. I took charge of the churches of Genoa 
and Five Corners, New York, April 1, 1904. 

"Nominally I am a Republican, independent in senti- 
ment. I am interested in the usual reform movements 
connected with the ministry, especially temperance. 

"My son Laurence took two years in Blackburn Col- 
lege, and is at present in the Chase Art School, New 
York City. The other three children are in school and 
college and conservatory at Oberlin." 

Dresser was at the reunion, the first he has attended, 
and enjoyed every minute of it. During this summer 
his family wil\ move to Ithaca, New York, and thus be 
near his field of work. 

JOHN FLETCHER DUFFIELD, M.D. 

No report. John's son Barry has been teaching Eng- 
lish in the American Protestant College, Beirut, Syria, 
and was expected home July 30, 1906. He may con- 

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tinue teaching or go into business. John's daughter 
Elizabeth would have entered Smith College this fall 
but for a severe attack of appendicitis last spring. She 
has passed most of the entrance examinations, and ex- 
pects to enter in September, 1907. 

FEAFK DUNKING, 

University Club, New York City; Valley Home, 
Warwick, Orange County, New York. 

Frank writes: "I still reside at Warwick, where I 
spend about half my time, the rest in travel. My city 
address is the University Club, New York. I have not 
married since last report. Am anxious to see how the 
boys answer your fifth question." Jealous old thing! 
He continues: "Once more you omit a question con- 
cerning bachelor life. A grave mistake, as there is so 
much in its favor." That is the way Ed. Lyon used to 
talk, too. 

The fellows who could not be at the Eeunion will be 
glad to know that Frank does not look forty, that he is 
the same genial, jolly, witty and companionable man 
that he was in our early days. He contributed greatly 
to the happy spirit of the gathering of the Class. 

i 
E. A. EDWAEDS, 
Peru, Indiana. 
Edwards is still in the banking business, and writes 
as follows: "I regret very much that I haven't some 
startling change or great achievement to report which 
would be of interest to some of the boys. The fact is I 

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am moving on in the same old channel, working hard 
and enjoying life. 

"My sons are both in business, one in Chicago, where 
he is managing the sales department of our lumber com- 
pany, and the other in Peru, where he is acting as teller 
in the First National Bank. I have two daughters in 
school, one in Vassar and the other in Boston. It had 
been my hope to get to Princeton at the time of the 
Commencement this year, but June is a very busy time 
and I failed to get away. I was represented there, 
however, by one of my daughters, who came down for 
the dance on Monday night. She brought me vivid 
descriptions of scenes pertaining to our trigintennial 
and commiserated me very strongly on my misfortune 
in not being there.'' 

THOMAS IRELAND ELLIOTT, 

office, 55-56 Maryland Life Building; residence, 
2026 Mount Royal Terrace, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Elliott — ^who responded so eloquently to the toast of 
"The Bachelors of '76" at our former Reunion in 1901 — 
has forsaken the "Old Guard" and joined the "Bene- 
dicks" and his report is therefore made up of an ac- 
count of the "grand, sweet song." "We append a clip- 
ping from a Baltimore paper of June 1, 1903 : 

"Mr. Thomas Ireland Elliott, of the Baltimore bar, 
will be married at Chestertown, Maryland, on June 3, to 
Miss Corirme Bruce Vickers, of that place. The cere- 
mony will be performed at the Chestertown Methodist 
Episcopal Church by Rev. M. Roberts, the pastor. The 
couple will sail from Boston for Naples on their wed- 

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■ding trip, which will include a tour of Europe. After 
their return to this country they will reside at 2026 
Mount Eoyal Terrace. Miss Vickers is a daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison W. Vickers, of Chestertown, 
and a granddaughter of the late United States Sena- 
tor George Vickers, who represented Maryland in the 
Senate from 1868 to 1873.'^ 

They have one daughter, Clara Vickers Elliott, born 
June 5, 1904. 

Elliott is one of the Vice-Presidents of the Princeton 
Alumni Association of Maryland. 

KEV. EDWAED C. EVANS, 

Remsen, Oneida Couniy, New York. 

"I have nothing new to add since my last report. I 
am living quietly in the same place, and am engaged 
chiefly in the same work of the gospel ministry and en- 
joying ordinary good health and prosperity. 

"My eldest son, Edward E. Evans, 22 years of age, 
graduated with honors in the class of 1905 at Hamil- 
ton College. Afterward he entered in the fall the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in- 
tending to qualify himself for the medical profession. 
The other son, Arthur L. Evans, 16 years of age, is pre- 
paring to enter college next year, and afterward (D. V.) 
intends to qualify himself for the legal profession. 

"The movement to increase the number of instructors 
at Princeton seems to me to be in the right direction, 
and if properly carried out will help to improve so- 
cially and morally the students by bringing them into 
closer intercourse with their teachers." 

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GEOEGE FIELDING FICKLEN. Died May 10, 
1877. [See Eecord No. IV., page 51.] 

LIEUT. LEIGHTON FINLEY. Died February 12, 
1894. [See Eecord No. VI., page 36.] 

CHAELES D. FOWLEE, 

lJk20 M Street, Northwest, Washington, District of 
Columbia. 
"Sooner^' sends two answers, the second one telling 
of his inability to be present at the Eeunion, matters 
arising at the last minute to prevent him coming, and 
expressing his keen regret at such condition and wish- 
ing in his usual happy way "good luck to all the men 
of '76." He still follows his profession of law, and 
has gathered no titles since last report. Is "not mar- 
ried AS yet/'' has no children, and says, "I do not feel 
equal to suggesting anything that will improve the so- 
cial and moral condition of students at Princeton." He 
is a member of the University Club of Washington. 

EEV. ALBEET ANDEEW FULTON, D.D., 

Canton, China. 
"Your call to 'please to recite,' sounds loudly, and 
herewith a few items. 

"During the past five years my time has been given 
chiefly to the work of itineration, and superintending 
the many churches and chapels under my care in the 
Province of Kwong Tung, Southern China. In this 
province there are about thirty millions of inhabitants, 

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and they are among China's most progressive and en- 
lightened subjects^ and it is from the Four Districts in 
this province that the large proportion of the Chinese in 
the United States come, 

"My country work is confined to the Four Districts 
mentioned. During the past four years I have received 
more than 2,000 converts, and these are gathered into 
eleven churches. I have also thirty other chapels under 
the care of native preachers, and through these workers 
tens of thousands yearly hear the gospel. In the city 
of Canton I have in charge the work in connection with 
the First Church, which is situated in a wealthy and in- 
fluential part of the western suburbs, and is closely 
affiliated with the Woman's Medical College, and David 
Gregg Hospital for Women and Children, all under 
the care of the Presbyterian Board of Missions. 

"China presents to-day the grandest field for mission- 
ary enterprise ever offered to the Christian churches of 
the world. The nation is struggling towards the light. 
The Japanese victory has made a profound impression 
upon the Chinese mind, and they are closely investi- 
gating the causes that enabled so small a nation to 
achieve so great a victory over the big nation that 
threatened to bestride China like a Colossus. There is 
fear lest in their eagerness to attain results they may 
be unwilling to comply with the conditions by which 
Japan reached a place among the great nations. 

"There is a great demand for schools and colleges, 
but there is a deficiency in capable teachers, which time 
alone can supply. China's bitterest need is good men, 
and these Christianity alone can supply. The vast mass 

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of the people are among the most industrious, economi- 
cal and persevering that can be found in any part of 
the world, and need only honest and just rulers to en- 
able them to take a very high place among the greatest 
nations. Magnificent resources await development, and 
it is absolutely essential to China's industrial and com- 
mercial expansion that this Empire should have long 
years of profound peace. With that peace will be af- 
forded splendid opportunities for laying the founda- 
tions of a Christian civilization, which alone can keep 
China from becoming a menace, which would follow in 
the event of military aspirations dominating and con- 
trolling the Imperial authorities. 

"The most cordial relations should be maintained be- 
tween our land and China, as they have always re- 
garded us as their best friends, and the recent un- 
pleasant incident reminds us that we must not again 
needlessly offend a nation with whom we must always 
have a very close relationship. I trust thousands of 
the Chinese scholars may go to the United States, and 
this would be of utmost importance in bringing about 
the great change that must take place in judicial and 
administrative reform, and thus ultimately open the 
way for constitutional government. The outlook is ex- 
ceedingly hopeful, and while some dangers will be in- 
curred in the work of transition, the results that will 
be achieved by moral renovation will be of unspeakable 
value both to China and to the world. 

"I have written many articles for papers, and have 
corrected my book, 'Progressive Lessons in Cantonese,* 
which is now in its third edition. 

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"Without any knowledge on my part, the University 
of Wooster, Ohio, took upon itself the responsibility of 
conferring upon your classmate the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity. I suppose there is no way of escaping the 
load without legal action, and as there is no ^76 lawyer 
here, in the interests of peace I must go my way, sub 
conditione. 

"Children : Edith M. has been at Wooster University 
and The Western College for Women, at Oxford, Ohio, 
and will graduate in June, 1907 ; Theodore Cuyler is at 
Wooster University, Harold and Ralph are at the Pre- 
paratory School, Winona Lake, Indiana, and Grace is 
at school in Wooster. 

"Now as to attending the Reunion. I would walk 
many miles to be with you, but cannot get over the big 
pond. It was a great disappointment that I could not be 
there in 1901, but I certainly shall be there, if alive, in 
1909. It would be a great joy to see any one of the 
Class who may decide to take in Canton on a health 
journey. 

"It is a delight to think how many fine men there are 
in old '76; we need never be ashamed of our record, 
and we will show by our earnestness, courage, and pluck 
in the big race that our fine opportunities at our glo- 
rious old university were not unimproved. Love to 
you all.' 

From other sources we learn that Fulton now has un- 
der his care more native helpers and more chapels than 
any other missionary in the Chinese Empire. His pol- 
icy is to train native helpers, work largely through na- 
tive agencies, plant mission stations in market-towns 

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from which tours to surrounding villages may easily be 
made, and to strive to make churches and schools self- 
supporting at the earliest possible day. His sister, Dr. 
Mary H. Fulton, has under her care, in Canton, a Wom- 
an's Medical College, the David Gregg Hospital, and a 
Nurses' Training School. The college is the only one 
of its kind in the Empire, is self-supporting, and for 
lack of room has had to turn away nearly as many stu- 
dents as it accommodates. 

"Dutch" throws this side-light on present conditions 
in China: 

"There is a strong desire to imitate Western learn- 
ing, as it is styled ; schools are in great demand, and the 
missionaries are called upon to supply teachers. All 
the young men who graduated from our school here in 
the city have been offered large salaries, compared with 
what the Mission could pay, and the officials are at a 
loss what to do. The old system of examination in 
Chinese classics has been abolished by a stroke of the 
Imperial pencil, and orders have been sent to all prov- 
inces to establish colleges after the model of foreign 
countries, which is easy to order but mighty hard to do. 
So old China will have to begin from the foundation. 
There are finest opportunities now in the hands of the 
missionaries to mould teaching along right lines. Edu- 
cational institutions are being opened by almost every 
large denomination, but not along sectarian lines. I 
would like much to start a library and reading-room 
in one of the cities in my field, where all the best books 
on modern science that have been recently translated 
into Chinese may be seen." 

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ALEXANDEE B. GILLESPIE, 

Garrett, Albany County, Wyoming. 
"I am engaged in ranching and stock business. No 
change in family since my last report." 

SAMUEL BAETOW GEEENE, after graduation, 
returned to his home in Buffalo, New York, and took 
up the study of law in his father's office, being in due 
time admitted to the bar. He remained in Buffalo for a 
number of years, and in 1889 he was married to Miss 
Jennie Lee Niven, of Monticello, New York. For ten 
or twelve years he resided in Monticello, when domestic 
troubles arose which led to a divorce, after which 
Greene married Miss Elizabeth Ball and moved to Stony 
Ford, New York. On May 10, 1904, he shot himself 
in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, expiring 
almost immediately. H. L. H. 

EEV. PEOF. WILLIAM BEENTON GEEENE, JE., 
D.D., 

Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New 
Jersey. 

"I have been fulfilling as well as I could my duties as 
Professor of Apologetics and Christian Ethics in the 
above institution. 

"I have published a small volume on 'Christian Doc- 
trine' for Normal Class students, two papers in the 
Princeton Theological Review, on 'The Practical Im- 
portance of Apologetics' and on 'Broadchurchism,' and 
several articles in the weekly papers. 

"I am interested in the Princeton 'Society for the 

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William A. Packard, Ph.D., D.D. 



Prevention of Cruelty to Animals/ and the ''New Jersey 
Society for Providing Homes for Homeless Children/ 
I am a Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Princeton. 

"I should like to see athletics at Princeton put on 
what I conceive to be a rational basis." 

Greatly to his regret, Greene was unable to attend 
the Eeunion, owing to the serious illness of a member 
of his family. He writes : "My prayers go up that the 
Eeunion may be in the very best sense a happy one." 

Those who were there will agree that his prayers were 
answered. 

COENELIUS CUYLEE GEEGOEY traveled far- 
ther to attend the Eeunion of 1901 than any classmate 
excepting Cuvellier. He derived the keenest enjoyment 
from the days he spent at Princeton, reviving old 
memories and renewing old friendships. Early in the 
following November, at his home in Fargo, North Da- 
kota, he was compelled to undergo a severe operation 
on the nose. A few days later he had an attack of the 
grippe and an abcess formed back of the drum of the 
right ear, making another operation necessary. Com- 
plications arose and typhoid seemed to threaten, but by 
the first of December the efforts of the physicians, 
coupled with assiduous nursing, gave promise of re- 
covery. On the second of December facial paralysis 
intervened, with difficulty in speaking, and Gregory 
sank rapidly, passing away December 4, from apoplexy. 
After funeral services in Fargo, the remains were taken 
to St. Paul for interment. 

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Quiet and unassuming, yet fond of congenial spirits 
and with a genius for friendship, "Pope" Gregory was 
known and liked by his classmates generally and loved 
deeply by those who knew him intimately. Of more 
than usual ability, he stood well in his studies, and after 
graduation taught with success for three years at Lin- 
coln University. He then entered upon a business ca- 
reer, which later took him to St. Paul. For upwards 
of ten years before his death he resided in Fargo, N. D., 
representing in that section a prominent St. Paul house. 

Gregory was a man of sterling integrity and the high- 
est character, his life was one of fine uprightness and 
purity, a clean life through and through. While per- 
haps he might have been considered undemonstrative, 
he was in no sense a selfish man, but was continually 
doing little and big kindnesses for others. For many 
years he had been a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
active in various departments of its work. His widow 
survives him. H. L. H. 

EEV. HIRAM PHILETUS HAMILTON, after act- 
ing for twenty-six years as the agent of the American 
Bible Society for the Eepublic of Mexico, on August 30, 
1905, laid down his earthly labors and entered into the 
Joy of his Lord. But his works do follow him, and who 
can tell how long his influence will abide, or how much 
light it was his privilege to let shine into the dark 
places ? 

On graduation from the Union Theological Seminary 
"Hite" was appointed, May 15, 1879, to represent the 
Bible Society in Mexico and arrived in the capital city 

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May 30. From that time until his death Hamilton had 
the entire republic for his field. In his twentieth an- 
nual report, published in 1899, he says: 

"It was early in 1879 that this agency was estab- 
lished. One colporteur was employed, and one consign- 
ment of books placed with a correspondent. After the 
agent had visited most of the mission centres and had 
come to know the workers, a system of colportage was 
introduced, employing from fifteen to fifty men, an 
average of about thirty during the twenty years : twenty 
years of continuous effort for one sole object — to afford 
to every Mexican who will improve it the opportunity of 
reading the Holy Scriptures. They have been years of 
conflict, because the dominant church is bitterly op- 
posed to the free use of the Bible by the humbler classes ; 
has constantly exercised its authority to prevent its use 
by prohibition through edicts and sermons, and has kept 
its hold on the people by a countless store of highly 
colored traditions, attractive legends, and almost daily 
festivals. Outside the priesthood, fanatical publica- 
tions have tried to make Catholicism synonymous with 
patriotism. They have charged us with fostering an- 
nexation schemes and working for political ends, but 
have failed to injure us, because the Mexican Prot- 
estant is of the most loyal type. A good government, 
maintaining peace for twenty years, has made progress 
always possible. It has not hindered, nor has it in any 
especial manner helped our work; it has taxed us as 
booksellers, and has protected us as such. The Eoman 
Catholic clergy have prospered in this period of peace, 
and are now making extensive repairs in numerous 

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old churches, but their sway over soul and conscience 
seems to be diminishing, and they have to be satisfied 
with an outward obedience, which will last as long as 
the papal system is tolerated by the rich," 

And in bis last report there occurs this: "Glancing 
backward over twenty-six years of Bible distribution by 
the American Bible Society in Mexico, we find much 
to inspire us to look hopefully into the future. Yearly 
gains have been slow but steady, and with but two ex- 
ceptions each year has meant increased distribution, as 
well as deeper interest in the work." 

Since the establishment of the agency 533,039 copies 
of the Bible, New Testament and portions of the Scrip- 
tures have been put in circulation. One of "Hite's" no- 
table characteristics v^as his intimate acquaintance with 
the life and labors of his colporteurs, for he not only 
directed their movements in all parts of the country, 
but he knew the circumstances and needs of their fami- 
lies, and was a patient, loyal friend to them in all their 
labors and trials, sympathizing with them in their joys 
and sorrows, always ready with wise counsel in their 
perplexities and discouragements. 

Mrs. Hamilton writes: "It is nearly eight years 
since Hiram's health first broke, a severe attack of 
grippe being followed by nervous prostration. The 
grippe has returned every year, and each year has left 
him weaker. For the last two years he has suffered 
with Bright's disease, and for the last few months the 
suffering has been almost unbearable. But he has 
fought bravely on, determined not to give up, and the 
days have been few when he has not gone to his office. 

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Two days before the end, though he had spent a ter- 
rible night and was nearly exhausted in the morning, 
he was about to start for the office, when I detained him 
until the doctor, for whom I had sent, should arrive. 
He assured Hiram that he was a very sick man and 
should go at once to the hospital. Hiram thought it 
all nonsense, but finally consented to go, saying it 
might do him good to 'loaf a few days." The family 
spent that afternoon with him, and left him in ex- 
cellent spirits, determined not to be ill. The next day 
there was a change for the worse, dropsy set in, the 
heart was seriously affected, and soon after midnight 
**he slipped quietly away into another life." 

Since "Hite's" death Mrs. Hamilton has been in 
charge of the agency, maintaining it in the high state 
of efficiency to which he had brought it. Besides Mrs. 
Hamilton, three children survive: Albert Edward, now 
nearly nineteen ; Harold Webb, fourteen, and Elizabeth, 
twelve. H. L. H. 

A quiet, scholarly and Christian gentleman was the 
late Eev. H, P. Hamilton, agent in this country for 
more than a quarter of a century of the American Bible 
Society. He was broad and liberal in his views, with- 
out sacrificing convictions which he earnestly felt to be 
essential. His character had rugged strength conjoined 
with great kindliness which, frankly manifested, won 
him many warm friends. Mr. Hamilton was an excel- 
lent Spanish scholar, and he took pleasure in the liter- 
ature of Spain. His passing into the Beyond leaves a 
void among his circle of friends, by whom he was ap- 

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predated for his manly qualities, his genial nature, and 
his cultivated mind. 

A large number of the most representative people in 
the American colony attended the funeral services yes- 
terday afternoon. The chapel of the American hos- 
pital was not large enough to hold all of the friends. A 
most impressive funeral service was conducted by Eev. 
W. E. Lawson. He spoke of the virtues of the dead 
man, reviewing his long and useful career in Mexico, 
and spoke words of encouragement to the family which 
survives the husband and father. 

Despite the fact that poor health during the last sev- 
eral years has kept Mr. Hamilton out of public affairs, 
it was fully demonstrated yesterday that he had not 
been forgotten by his friends. Great heaps of flowers 
and floral designs covered a large space around the 
casket. 

The interment took place in the new American cem- 
etery. A number of the friends accompanied the body 
to the grave, where the regular burial service was con- 
ducted. — Mexican Herald, Aug. 22, 1905. 

EEV. EOBEET WILSON" HAMILTON, M.A., 

The Fort Manse, Lishurn, Ireland. 

"I have little to record since the last account. I am 
interested and active in many things and there is much 
to be thankful for. 

"My boys are both at college and getting on satisfac- 
torily ; both taller than myself." 

A year ago "E" wrote that there was a chance of his 

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coining to this side of the water this suaimer, but the 
plans did not mature. 

HENEY L. HAREISON, 

20 East Fiftieth Street; residence, 69 East Fifty- 
fourth Street, New YorTc City. 

"I am in much the same state as several others of the 
Class in that I have 'nothing new to report/ The 
Cutler School claims most of my time for three-fourths 
of the year, and we continue to send many boys to 
Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia, with now and 
then one to smaller colleges. 

"ISTo publications other than those connected with 
the Class of '76. 

"My ecclesiastical . affiliations are with the Eef ormed 
(Dutch) Church, and for a dozen years or more I have 
held the office of Deacon in the Collegiate Church, the 
oldest church organization on Manhattan Island, which 
comprises four churches and a number of chapels. I 
am also superintendent of the Sunday-school of the 
Collegiate Church of St, Nicholas, and besides am inter- 
ested in mission work on the west side of the city. 

'Tlubs : Princeton, Century, Barnard." 

CHAELES HAETEIDGE. Died November 23, 1882. 
[See Eecoed No. IV., page 62.] 

WILLIAM JAMES HENDEESON, 

Editorial Rooms, New YorTc Sun; residence, Hotel 
Gerard, 125 West Forty-fourth Street, New York 
City. 
"Since my last report I have shifted from The New 
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Yorh Times to The New York Sun. Cause, urgent re- 
quest of the latter paper with a substantial increase of 
the filthy lucre. I went toThe Sun in September, 1902, 
and am music critic as heretofore. I continue to write 
for various periodicals, occasionally doing some pure 
literary work, such as story or verse. I do a good deal 
of musical lecturing, and have been appointed lecturer 
on the Development of Vocal Art in the new Institute 
of Musical Art, Kew York City. 

"Publications since last report: 'Eichard Wagner, 
His Life and His Dramas' (Putnam), 1901; 'Modern 
Musical Drift' (Longmans, Greene & Co.), 1904; and 
'Pipes and Timbrels,' a volume of verse (The Gorham 
Press), 1905." 

Billy's list of publications is much longer than this, 
but the prevailing '76 modesty got the better of his evi- 
dent intent to give them. However, we add that he is 
the author of the official textbook of the Naval Militia 
of the United States on Navigation, the book having 
been selected by the Navy Department as such, also of 
three volumes of nautical fiction. A new book is also 
expected from the press in September, "The Art of the 
Singer." 

"Club membership: Princeton Club of New York, 
Nassau Club of Princeton, and Hollywood Golf Club, 
West End, New Jersey. 

"May 9, 1904, married Miss Julia F. Wall. 

"Only children those of first marriage, as before re- 
ported. Neither of them is yet married, and I'm no 
grandpop — ^not by a long shot. 

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6. "No, I think they are about up to the general 
university standard, and a heap higher than those in 
some other places." 

HON". BAYAED HENRY, 

office, lJf38~Ji.8 Land Title Building, Philadelphia; 
residence. West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Penn- 
sylvania. 

Bayard sends a report full of interesting news, sug- 
gestions and views, and we print it in full : 

"Practising law. 

"No publications. 

"Interested in politics ; Eepublican. Active in move- 
ment for honest elections and good government in the 
city of Philadelphia, and Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

"Trustee of Princeton University; President Young 
Men's Christian Association, Germantown, having 
served in that capacity eighteen years. 

"Member and Secretary of Board of Trustees of First 
Presbyterian Church in Germantown since 1877. 

"Director: United Eailroads and Canal Co. of New- 
Jersey, Philadelphia & Erie Eailroad Co., Insurance Co. 
of North America, Eeal Estate Trust Co., Lehigh Coal 
and Navigation Co., Tradesmen's National Bank, Key- 
stone Warehouse Co., Buffalo, Lexington Traction Co., 
Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co., Castner 
Electrolytic Alkali Co., Niagara Falls; President: 
Johnsonburg Eailroad Co. 

"Member of Princeton, Eittenhouse, Union League 
and Penn Clubs, of Philadelphia; Cricket and Young 

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Republican Clubs, of Germantown; Nassau Club, 
Princeton; University Club, New York, and Buffalo 
Club, Buffalo. 

"I use none of these clubs very often, except the 
Cricket Club. There I play tennis daily through the 
summer, and I would like to play any member of the 
Class for class championship at our Eeunion in June, 
or at our next Eeunion in 1911. 

"No change in report as to children, excepting that 
Howard H. Henry, Princeton, '04, President of his 
class, was married to Miss Mae Drexel Fell, Camp Hill 
Hall, Fort Washington, immediately after his gradua- 
tion. 

"One grandchild, Sarah Drexel Henry, born March 
29, 1905. 

"Suggesting what would improve the social or moral 
condition of the students at Princeton University is a 
task which it is difficult to perform. There are many 
things, however, which are needed at Princeton — a large 
endowment more than anything else. The greatest ad- 
vance made in many years towards securing good order 
and serious work by the students at Princeton was 
brought about by the Preceptorial System, which has 
already created marked changes in the undergraduate 
life. There are still many things which might be done 
for Princeton. We should have large funds, more pro- 
fessors, more clubs and a better system of Commons. 
At present, the matter of supplying good, wholesome 
food to the students, especially to the underclassmen, is 
a serious problem, which must be met at an early day. 
The recently acquired land about to be taken into the 

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campus, all the way from the tmiverHit}' buildings to 
Carnegie Lake_, and the walks and driyes which will 
Boon be laid out and opened throu^ that portion of 
the grcands. and the lake it&elf^ •vrill make greater 
changes in Princeton life than anything else which has 
happened in ottr day and generation. The prospect for 
a brilliant, solid and substantial furore for Princeton 
UniTersitT was neTer brighter, and it should l>e a matter 
of satisfaction to our Class that the group of m^en in. 
Princeton about our time, traiued by the great HcCosh, 
had considerable to do with establishing our Alma Mater 
in such a splendid and notable pcKition.*^ 

Bayard is a mjember of the Committtee of Fifty ap- 
pointed to raise funds for Princeton. 

HOy. .JA3IES C. JEXKIXS, 
Ling ay en^ Philippine. Idands. 

JenMns is a Judge of the Court of First Instance, 
Third Jvdicisl Thsvrict, Lingayen, Phflippinfi Iglands: 

**By iiie KHpinos I am giTea variofas titles mid ad- 
dzeeeed in sundry ~iy= : ugqally as Honorable, Bomi&- 
inneg as Mr. or Ser y ;: :h^: tim^ as Don, oeeaaon^ 
ally as Esq., and frr, ;^:i:ly r^o c^ tii£se; and I hare 
reoeived lettiers addieeeed: Honorable Don Mr. Seoor 
Juez de Juzgado de Tnmersi InBtancia. 

2. 'TThis question is in part ansirered r,y th^ fore- 
going. Being in tlie judieiaiy, I am our o: ;::.'.?.; 
and I fear I never iras mudi if TetigUHL, it- - ^■:. : r-. 
earfy manliood I have been a member <rf ti^ .. :.i: 
and mT reeidence ^ni ^x ^ - -. -^ in the Orient have not 



'Philanthropic, charitable, and reform, movements' I 
am compelled to leave largely to Carnegie, Eockefeller, 
Morgan and other like poverty-stricken individuals, 
though, to be sure, I am greatly interested in all. 
'Charity engagements begin at home,' and in a family 
of ten reformation, within constitutional limits, is at all 
times in order; but I've alw^ays loved well my fellow- 
man, and fellow-women better. 

"I am a member of the Army and Navy and Univer- 
sity Clubs of Manila. 

"The Code of Georgia and the Codigo Penal Espa- 
nol of force in the Philippines, prohibit polygamy. 

"Neither 'the names nor dates of birth' of the chil- 
dren have changed since last report, except the eighth 
has been named Katharine; they have grown to much 
greater proportions physically, and more expensive to 
keep; but, fortunately, the number has not changed, 
even in the Philippines. By the way, I once showed 
a group photo of the eight to Colonel W. A. Henderson, 
of Washington City, and he said they were all good- 
looking and MUST have taken after the mother. They 
have attended no schools as yet outside of Atlanta and 
Manila. 

"Your fifth interrogatory, in connection with 'd' of 
the fourth, frightened me. You know it is said that, 
in these islands, 'the birds do not sing, flowers do not 
smell, and women do not love.' 

"Didn't know the moral condition of the students at 
Princeton needed improvement, and hope it's a mis- 
take. 

"Possibly I will adjourn court June 11 and run over 

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J\-ii;i;i()i; oi- Ai.i:xAXj)i:i; IIai.l 



to Princeton that afternoon and back early next morn- 
ing, so as to gratify my longing to be with the boys at 
the Class Eeunion. However, out of abundance of cau- 
tion, I suggest that there be no accommodations re- 
served." 

The Atlanta News under date of October 12, 1903, 
said editorially: 

"Colonel Jenkins, viewed from a Democratic stand- 
point, is one of the best and most admirable of the 
Georgia Eepublicans. He is honest, able, industrious 
and scholarly. He is a fine lawyer, an excellent citizen, 
and a very popular man with all parties in the capital 
city of Georgia. 

"Taking it for granted that the Kepublican President 
would only appoint a Eepublican to one of these respon- 
sible stations, we are frank to say that Mr. Roosevelt 
could scarcely find in the Eepublican ranks in Georgia 
a more effective and acceptable representative for the 
Philippine judiciary than Colonel J. C. Jenkins." 

The following is an editorial from "Yap" Walker's 
paper, The Chattanooga Times, of October 23, 1903 : 

"It is stated that President Eoosevelt is about to ap- 
point the Hon. J. C. Jenkins, of Atlanta, as a judge of 
a Court of First Instance in the Philippines. Mr. Jen- 
kins is a lawyer of great ability, thoroughly equipped 
for the place and qualified in every way for such a posi- 
tion. He is an educated gentleman, a graduate of 
Princeton of the Class of 1876, and one of the worthiest 
Eepublican representatives in the South. Mr. Jenkins 
has been a Southern Eepublican from principle, and 
has held few offices under any of his party's adminis- 

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trations. . . . Here is one Southern Kepublican the 
President would be justified in honoring for his genu- 
ine worth if not for his influence in a political way. 
It requires no small nerve to be a Eepublican in Geor- 
gia, as everybody knows, and while Mr. Jenkins has 
never been a noisy politician he has had his convictions 
pretty strongly fixed. His appointment will meet the 
approval of the best people in Georgia." 

MOEEIS K JOHNSON, 

Princeton Club, 12 East Thi't:ty -fourth Street, New 
York City. 

"Johnnie" is President of The International Ordnance 
Company, Secretary and Treasurer of the United States 
Ordnance and Projectile Company, and President of 
the Ontario Mining and Smelting Company. He is not 
married, but since June all the bachelors feel that there 
is still hope for them. 

Club membership: Princeton, University. 

MAJOE EICHAED W. JOHNSON, M.D., 

United States Army, Fort Crook, Nehraska. 
Dick's report is best given in his own words : 
"I returned from the Philippine Islands in March, 
1902, after serving my term of banishment in those 
remote, forsaken possessions of ours, and was detailed 
as Chief Sanitary Officer of the Department of Califor- 
nia, with station in San Francisco. After a tour of 
duty there of eight months, I was ordered to Fort Mon- 
roe, Virginia, as surgeon of that post, a year later re- 
ceiving the assignment to the World's Fair at St. Louis 

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in charge of the United States Army Medical Depart- 
ment Exhibit, where I remained until the close of that 
Exposition, 

"I was then ordered to Fort Crook, Nebraska, as sur- 
geon of the post, performing in addition the past fall 
and winter the duties of Chief Surgeon of the Depart- 
ment of the Missouri at Omaha. I expect to remain 
here until ordered back to the Philippines, which will 
probably be some time during the present or following 
year. 

"This country is good enough for me, and I am not 
at all delighted at the prospect of a second tour in those 
islands. A residence of several years in our foreign 
possessions will, I think, convert the most enthusiastic 
advocate for their retention by the United States into 
just as enthusiastic an opponent of the measure. The 
sooner the people of this country appreciate the fact 
that we have a very large Vhite elephant' on our hands, 
which had better be given away, if it cannot be other- 
wise disposed of, the better for all concerned. We will 
never in one thousand years make good, honest, reliable 
and intelligent citizens of these people, as all these at- 
tributes are entirely foreign to the Malay character. 
Whatever original good may have been in their compo- 
sition was neither fostered nor developed by over three 
hundred years of Spanish misrule, so we now have an 
ignorant, rascally and murderous band of cut-throats to 
educate and civilize, and I have no hesitancy in saying 
that we shall make an ignominious failure, as they are 
thoroughly antagonistic to us and our advanced ideas of 
civilization. 

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"For various reasons, I dislike the Philippines so 
much that when I begin on the subject I never know- 
when to stop, so to avoid encroaching too much on your 
valuable time and space, and, at the same time, inflict- 
ing my views on the Class, I will apply the brakes right 
here. 

"In your sixth query you ask me to suggest anything 
that will improve the social or moral tone of students 
at Princeton. In my humble opinion, the moral tone 
might be elevated by the elimination of all that savors 
of professionalism in athletics, especially football. I re- 
gret to see so much attention devoted to the amount of 
the gate receipts, relegating to the bacisground the old- 
fashioned idea that when the game was played between 
rival teams it was solely for the honor of their respec- 
tive colleges, and not, as is now apparently the case, for 
the purpose of making money. I believe the game to 
be in a condition of decadence, and if some drastic 
measures are not adopted to remove its well-known ob- 
jectionable features it will not be long before the sup- 
port of the better element is withdrawn, and the game 
be placed in the same category with prize-fights and 
other similar brutal exhibitions. 

"A son, Eichard W., Jr., was born April 33, 1906." 

EOBEET W. JOHNSON, A.M., M.D., 

101 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Bob is, as heretofore, practising and teaching surgery 
in the city in which he lives. His outside activities are 
confined to charitable work in hospitals and other hu- 
mane institutions. His religious duties are those of a 

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vestryman in St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He is a 
Fellow of the American Surgical Association, and of the 
Southern Surgical and Gynaecological Association, ex- 
President of the Clinical Society of Baltimore and of 
the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. He 
is Professor of Surgery in the Baltimore Medical Col- 
lege, surgeon to the Church Home, St. Agnes, and the 
Maryland General Hospitals. 

He is a member and an ex-governor of the University 
Club. He has not had any changes in his family since 
the last report, except to bind its members closer to 
Princeton. W. Fell Johnson was graduated from the 
University in 1905 with the A.B. hallmark. Anna 
Julia Johnson was married in May, 1904, to Lieutenant 
Gordon Johnson, U.S.A. (Princeton, 1896), and Ella 
Brock Johnson on April 26, 1905, to James M. Ehodes, 
Jr., Princeton, '97. For the improvement of the un- 
dergraduates Johnson says, "Stop drinking on the part 
of the alumni and students at college." Bob's chief 
publication since the last report seems to have been a 
warm letter against the disfranchisement of the negro, 
published in the Baltimore Evening News. Among 
other things, Bob said : 

"How can we better eliminate the ignorant vote than 
allowing it to counteract itself by pitting that of one 
party against that of the other? This leaves questions 
to be decided on their merits by the intelligent voters 
of both parties, and debases the condition of no one. 

"Back of technicalities, back of the Constitution, lies 
the broad question of suffrage and human rights. I 
hold in general that any citizen, native or foreign born, 

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white or black, who might have been or may be called 
on to bear a musket in defense of the State has a right 
to vote in its government. 

"It has been said that State government is a mere 
business question, and those who have no property at 
stake, or pay no taxes, should have no voice in its man- 
agement, but are there not outside of taxes hundreds 
of questions arising that affect the individual, whether 
he can or cannot read and write, whether he be poor or 
rich; and when it comes to the rub, who form the first 
ranks of defense — the fathers of this amendment with 
a Quaker record in the wars and strikes of their life- 
time, or the men whom they want to disfranchise?" 

Bob expected to sail for Europe in July, but his son 
William had appendicitis in Pittsburgh, and they left 
the steamer to be vi^ith him. We are glad to be able 
to add that William recovered. 

DAVID B. JONES, 

62 Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois. 
D. hurls aside his responsibilities by saying that his 
personal history since the last report is "too monoto- 
nous to make good copy." Yet in the Denver Republi- 
can of April 19, 1903, appeared the interesting state- 
ment that the private ear Olympia, used by President 
McKinley, was in the railroad yards at that city. The 
paper continued by saying : "It came in yesterday after- 
noon over the Santa Fe from the South, and is occupied 
by D. B. Jones and a party of friends from Chicago. 
Mr. Jones is a capitalist who has made several visits to 
Denver, while on trips of inspection to his mines in 

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New Mexico." And yet D. has the nerve to say that 
his doings have no interest ! Dave's report is about the 
same as last time, except for the fact that his son passed 
his entrance exams for Princeton two years ago at the 
age of sixteen. Since that time he has been engaged in 
expanding his mind by reading and travel, and he will 
enter the freshman class in the fall. 

D. was one of the first five Alumni Trustees, and was, 
in October, 1901, assigned by ballot to serve two years. 
His term expiring, he received 138 renominations, and 
no one else had the twenty necessary to qualify him as 
a candidate. Fifty of these renominations came from 
'76. It is said that D. is always present at the trustee 
meetings. He is a member of the Committee of 'Fifty 
appointed to raise an endowment fund of two and a half 
millions for the university. 

THOMAS D. JONES, 

1^1 Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois. 
Tom Jones was sitting in the lap of classicism in 
Athens when he sent an all too brief reply to the circu- 
lar. He is still a lawyer by profession and has not con- 
fessed to the authorship of any publications. In poli- 
tics he is an Independent, and in religion is a Presby- 
terian. His club membership embraces the Chicago and 
University Clubs of Chicago and the University and 
Metropolitan of New York. He is not married yet, but 
of course there is yet time. He declines to offer any 
suggestions about the students on the ground that the 
contract is too big. T. Jones was still abroad when the 

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reunion took place and hence was present only in spirit 
and by proxy (D. Jones). 



WILLIAM T. KAUFMAN, 

62 Cedar Street, New York City. 

"Billy" is connected with the well-known firm of 
Harvey Fisk & Sons, Bankers, at 62 Cedar Street, New 
York City. He says he has "nothing interesting to re- 
port since you last heard from me. My work goes on 
in the same way it has for the last ten years, and my 
history has been quite uneventful." 

His daughters, Grace and Gladys, were educated at 
Miss Davis' School, Morristown, New Jersey. He re- 
ports no change in any of the questions in the circular. 
He is a member of the following clubs: New York 
Yacht, Princeton, City Midday, Nassau of Princeton, 
New Hampshire of Boston. 

EEV. GEORGE KNOX, D.D., 

1138 State Street, La Fayette, Indiana. 

"John," for five years past, has been Synodical Super- 
intendent of Home Mission and Evangelistic Work of 
the Synod of Indiana; he is also Stated Clerk of Vin- 
cennes Presbytery and Trustee of Hanover College. 

"Same wife for twenty-six years past, only nearer 
and dearer as the years go by. 

"My daughter, Harriet Elizabeth, graduated at the 
Western College, Oxford, Ohio, in June, 1904; married 
Robert A. Simpson, December 28, 1905, 

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"Alexander W. graduated from the Manual Training 
High School, Indianapolis, in June, 1905, and is now 
in Perdue University, taking a Mechanical Engineering 
course. 

"Florence is in the High School, the other children in 
the Grammar School." 

"John" would like to have attended the Eeunion, hut 
duty called him to Hanover College, whose Commence- 
ment and meeting of the Board of Trustees came at the 
same time as Princeton's. He adds: "But my heart 
will he with the fellows at Princeton, and I send my 
heartiest greeting to one and all." 

Knox received the degree of D.D. from Hanover Col- 
lege two or three years ago. 

EEV. EGBERT TGDD LISTGX, A.M., 

Gaffney, Cherolcee County, South Carolina. 

"Ahout two years after our last report I returned 
from Wetumpka to Gxford, Alahama, remaining t?iere 
in my former field imtil last Novemher, when I ac- 
cepted the call of the church here in Gaffney, leaving 
two quiet village churches for a growing town of about 
six thousand people and an interesting work. 

"My publications have been a few bits of verse in the 
newspapers, that kindly print 'most anything, you 
know.' 

"While I have not been able to do very much for it, 
the philanthropic work of our church has interested me. 
Friendly recognition, such as naming a church-school 
building for me, or a vote of thanks from our Southern 



General Assembly, hardly needs to be classed under 
the large name of honors. The trustees of the Gaffney 
Library and the honorary members of the Commercial 
Club also count me in. 

"No change in my dear home these past five years, 
except the addition of one name — Mary Theresa, our 
baby, born August 25, 1903, making our children four 
in number. 

6. "Truly wish I could. But wouldn't the sophs of 
'06 yell at the suggestion that the 'antediluvians' of 
'76 could tell them anything?" 

Listen's charge is known as the Limestone Presby- 
terian Church. At Commencement, this year, Liston 
received the degree of M.A., and being present for its 
bestowal, he was also at the Class Dinner. His devo- 
tion to Princeton increases vi^ith the passing years and 
finds expression in influencing men to enter its classes. 
He has several to his credit already, and of course his 
son is heading that way. 

HON. JAY HENEY LONG, 

306 South Front Street, Mankato, Minnesota. 

He is an attorney-at-law ; in 1904 was appointed a 
member of the Charter Commission, and in 1905 he 
was elected Special Judge of the Municipal Court, so 
he receives the prefix to his name given above. 

Long's eldest daughter, Olive, was married in 1899 
to Dr. L. M. Low, and there are two children, Percy 
and Harold. The second daughter, Marion, spent two 
years at Albert Lea College. 

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EEV. LEONAED WALTEE LOTT, A.B., A.M., 

St. Paul's Church, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

"I think the last report found me in Boston. I left 
there February, 1903, and became rector the same 
month of St. Paul's Church, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

"For the past three years I have been trying to do 
some little good to my fellowmen here." 

The Journal of the Council of the Diocese of Louis- 
iana, April, 1903, says: "Mr. Lott brings high en- 
thusiasm and large culture and experience to his work, 
and under his leadership St. Paul's will move on in its 
full strength and its full volume of progressive ac- 
tivities, and his brethren gladly anticipate companion- 
ship with him., and feel strengthened by his presence 
in meeting the responsibilities which rest upon the 
Church both in this city and throughout the diocese." 

Lott regretted his inability to be at the Eeunion, and 
writes, "My heart is with the dear old Class of '76, and 
may God bless every member of it." He, too, has gone 
recently through the deep waters of affliction. Mrs. Lott 
was taken ill in March, 1905, and died January 16, 
1906, at Ehinebeck, N. Y. 

EEV. J. WALTEE LOWEIE, D.D., 

Paotingfu, North China. 
"Since the last Eecord^ varied have been my experi- 
ences in this missionary calling, w^hich, with ever- 
deepening conviction, I consider the greatest and the 
happiest that can be allotted to a human being. 

"Within these five years the Chinese Colossus has 
awakened, and only the Omniscient One knows what 

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course he is now about to take. I rejoice that Prince- 
ton and "76, both in North and South China, are rep- 
resented in assisting at this greatest crisis in China's 
national life. 

"Prevented, through no intention of my own, from 
the tragic death which my beloved colleagues — two 
of them, George Yardley Taylor, M.D., and Cort- 
landt Van Eensselaer Hodge, M.D., fellow Prince- 
tonians — ^met at the hands of the Boxers, I filled, 
during and after the siege of Tientsin, with varying 
success, the oflBces of hospital nurse, proprietor of a 
laundry, of a bakery, and of an inn, acted as inter- 
preter to the British commander. General Lorne- 
Campbell, in his march on Paotingfu (my former and 
present missionary home), also as interpreter to the 
German commander, General von Kettler, occupying 
Paotingfu jointly with the French for nine months, 
1900-1901, and again, conjointly with a Eoman 
Catholic priest, as interpreter to the 'Commission 
Mixte,' a civil tribunal composed of German and French 
officers in control of the city during that period. 

"In these last positions I was enabled to do some- 
thing for the Chinese Christians and others during 
months of disorder and dismay, which the Chinese 
Government was pleased to recognize with the gift 
of the title and insignia of a mandarin of the fourth 
rank. 

"1 remained in Paotingfu after the withdrawal of the 
troops and witnessed the rebuilding of the destroyed 
mission property on a new plot of ground far more 
convenient and extensive than the old, the unsolicited 

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gift of the merckants and gentry of the city; then left 
China with my mother, who has been the earthly in- 
spiration of my life, took a few months' rest in Switzer- 
land, spent a year in the home land very quietly, re- 
ceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity from our Alma 
Mater, returned to Paotingfu, and am now more deeply 
immersed in preaching and other missionary work than 
ever before. 

"As to your sixth question: Can you suggest any- 
thing that will improve the social or moral condition 
of students at Princeton ? I am strongly of the opinion 
that a university pastor — a man who believes and lives 
the whole Bible without apology and without hypo- 
crisy, a man who loves a football game, but is brave 
enough to deny it even second place in college men's 
thinking, a man so pure as to have nothing to screen 
from the daily scrutiny of four thousand eyes, a leader 
of youth, himself led by the Leader of the race, Jesus 
Christ — would do more than all else combined to exalt 
the moral tone of the university community. And I 
see no reason why denominational considerations could 
not be entirely ignored in the search for a man who 
had such qualifications as these. 

"How gladly I would be with you all on Keunion day, 
but shall find a satisfaction only second to being present 
in studying the 1906 Record when it arrives, in evi- 
dence whereof I inclose a small cheque, and wish your- 
self and all the fellows a hearty Godspeed." 

Eev. Arthur J. Brown, D.D., Secretary of the 
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, who visited 
China after the Boxer troubles, writes: "Mr. Lowrie, 

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as the only man who could speak Chinese^ and the only 
one, too, who personally knew the Chinese, at once came 
into prominence. To the people he appeared to have 
the power of life and death. All examinations had to 
he conducted through him. ... It would have accorded 
with Chinese custom if Mr. Lowrie had availed him- 
self to the utmost of his extraordinary opportunity to 
punish the antagonists of the missionaries, especially 
as his dear friends had been remorselessly murdered 
and all of his own personal property destroyed. . . . 
Profound was their amazement when they saw the man 
whom they had so grievously wronged acting, not only 
with moderation and strict justice, but in a kind and 
forgiving spirit. . . . Mr. Lowrie counseled the generals 
to try Ting Jung, who, at the time of the massacre, 
was Provincial Judge, but who had since been pro- 
moted to the post of Provincial Treasurer and acting 
Viceroy; Kwei Heng, the commander of the Manchu 
garrison, and Weng Chan Kwei, the colonel in command 
of the Chinese Imperial forces, who had seized the es- 
caping Bagnall party and sent them back to their doom. 
The evidence plainly showed that these high officials 
were the direct and responsible instigators of the up- 
rising, that they had ordered every movement, and that 
the crowd of smaller officials. Boxers and common peo- 
ple, had simply obeyed their orders. They were found 
guilty and condemned to death." 

"Brick" sat with the '76 section at the Yale-Prince- 
ton baseball match, June 10, 1905, and showed that 
absence in the Orient had dimmed neither his enthu- 
siasm for Princeton nor his affection for his Class. 

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EDWAED DEWIS LYON, Ph.D., 

Grand View-on-Hudson, New York. 

" 'As a ship whose white sails skim 
Over the horizon dim,' 
have been my years since the last '76 Eecoed. 

"As an educator, the 'reform movement' in which 
I have been engaged has been along the lines of en- 
kindling the intellectual and ethical souls of the youths 
in my daily care, of arousing energy and zeal through 
interest and belief in work. 

"Church membership: I am a member of St. 
Thomas's Church, New York City, and I have learned 
'that all life is an evolution into the consciousness of 
God.' 

"Club membership : Princeton and University Clubs. 

"Married June 23, 1906, to Mrs. Kate Emma 
Pinckney." 

EICHAED EIDGELY LYTLE, A.M., M.D., 

1^5 West One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Street, 
New Yorh City. 
"The lines by Cowper at the head of your letter strike 
me squarely on the head and describe my present con- 
dition to a nicety. My hair is uot 'completely silvered 
o'er,' though fast becoming so, but I am 'strong for 
service still,' and hope to be for many years. I had 
become somewhat impaired for service, but last De- 
cember Andy McCosh operated on me and Eichard is 
himself once more. 

"My professional work still engages all my time, and 
I have nothing new to report. 

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"No literary work. I am interested in politics, but 
have no time for engaging in its activities. 

"Member of Holy Trinity Church. Member of med- 
ical and social clubs. 

"Still united to the same dear wife, and trust to be 
till time shall be no more. 

"My family remains as in last report — all well and 
hearty. One daughter married, one at Smith College 
in the junior class, and the other one is at home. The 
two boys were with Ed. Lyon for two years, but are 
now at Trinity School. If you have the Trinity paper 
for April you will see a picture of my oldest boy as 
Captain of the Trinity Baseball Team. He also plays 
half-back on the football team. The other one is 
Captain of the Junior Basketball Team. 

"I regret to say I am not a grandfather. 

"Keep the students busy with their studies and out- 
door sports is the best suggestion I can make for keep- 
ing them in a fit moral condition. Their social status 
will depend upon their previous home training." 

JOSEPH McELEOY MANF, 

153-157 Fifth Avenue, New York City; residence 
Bloom-field, Essex County, New Jersey. 
"Mac" writes that he finds the Committee's circular 
as hard to answer as some of the examination papers in 
the good old days, but will "do all and the best he can 
for the honor of '76." He is still connected with Charles 
Scribner's Sons, Publishers, at 153-157 Fifth Avenue, 
New York City, and is now in the Cashier's Depart- 
ment instead of the Magazine Department, as formerly. 

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He resides at Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he has 
been for the past nineteen years, and will give any '76 
man a warm welcome there. 

He is, and has been for sixteen years, an elder in 
the First Presbyterian Church, and has been super- 
intendent of the Sunday-school for five years. His 
pastor is a Yale man, and "Mac" says that "there are 
some occasions on which we cannot be happy together." 
He is a member of the Board of Education and also 
a member of the Board of Examiners for the licensing 
of teachers in the Public Schools. 

No additional children since last report. His oldest 
son, Peter Carter, graduated from Princeton, 1905, 
academic course, with honors, securing the Phi Beta 
Kappa key, and has since studied law at the New York 
Law School ; the second son, Joseph F., is at the Bloom- 
field Academy and expects to enter Princeton in the 
class of 1911, academic. 

"Mac" has been interested in a number of local move- 
ments for the betterment of the community. He is a 
member of the Eailroad Committee of the local Board 
of Trade, and was Chairman of the Press Committee, 
which issued a pamphlet setting forth the advantages 
of Bloomfield as a place of residence. Copies may be 
had upon application. "I have no interest in real es- 
tate schemes, bu.t am always glad to see nice people 
moving into town." 

FEANCIS HARTMAN MAEKOE, M.D., 

15 East Forty-ninth Street, New York City. 
He is actively engaged in his profession, which is 
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that of practical surgery. He has titles of A.M. and 
M.D., and has published journal articles. Is a mem- 
ber of the following clubs : Princeton, University, Cen- 
tury, Union, Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Narrows 
Island Shooting, St. Andrew's Golf and Meadow. 

He wishes "every success to the individual members 
of the Class.'' 

FEEDEEICK ALEXANDEE MACQUAND. Died 
December 20, 1885. [See Eecoed No. IV., page 
76.] 

GEOEGE BUENHAM MAETIN. Died April 39, 
1896. [See Eecoeb No. VI., page 63.] 

EEV. WILLIAM JAMES McKITTEICK., D.D., 

5122 McPherson Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 

He is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of 
St. Louis; has published "some sermons in newspapers, 
and a pamphlet containing little thin extracts from ser- 
mons has been published by some well-meaning but mis- 
guided friends." 

He is "independent in politics as a fly on a window 
pane"; has been engaged in philanthropic work in the 
following societies: "Civic League, Mission Chapel, 
Archasological Society, School of Philanthropy, Provi- 
dent Association, Eeligious Education Association, and 
several committees for the improvement of the world." 

He is a Presbyterian and engaged in general church 
work, "a little worried sometimes over the narrow and 
hollow places in our traditional theology, a believer in 

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a progressive revelation, sympathetic with all methods 
of honest Biblical criticism, not afraid of God's Word 
being dug up and shaken to pieces in the open air, a 
friend of the co-operative system, I doing most of the 
preaching and my wife most of the practicing." He 
is "a triple-plated D.D.," and his club membership 
consists of the Princeton Club of St. Louis, a mid- 
week Prayer Meeting, and Roosevelt's Big Stick. He 
has "not married since last report, the former one 
being still in vogue and very satisfactory." Has one 
son, Seward McKittrick, fifteen years old, who is at 
Smith Academy and headed for Princeton. He says 
"hurrah for the Preceptorial System." 

SAMUEL DAVIS MELTON". Died December 10, 
1880. [See Record No. IV., page 80.] 

REV. PAGE MILBURN, 

332 East Lafayette Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. 

"I am still in the active ministry of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

"Children: Joseph W. received the degree of B.S. at 
Dickinson College in 1902, spent two years in the U. S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey in the waters of Alaska and 
in Hawaii, and this past year has been teaching in the 
McKinley High School, Washington, D. C. At present 
he is preparing for the examination for Patent Office 
Examiner. Mary E., received the degree of A.B. at the 
Woman's College of Baltimore. J. Rudisill graduated 
at Dickinson College in 1906 with the degree of B.S. 
The other children are in school in Baltimore." 

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JOHN G. MILLEE, 

Market Street and Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 
Illinois. 

"Jack" is engaged in manufacturing fine clothing at 
the above address as head of the firm of John G. Miller 
& Co. He has had "no professional, literary or po- 
litical honors, and have sought none, finding my time 
and attention fully taken up in the care of our busi- 
ness. I am a member of the Union League, Chicago 
Athletic and South Shore Country Clubs." 

His daughter, Evelyn, is married and living in Bos- 
ton, and has a daughter born May 3, 1906, making 
"Jack" a happy grandpa. 

THOMAS A. NOBLE, 

508 Diamond Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
W "Duke" is still pursuing the duties of the legal pro- 

J^' ^ fession and is also largely interested and engaged in 
•^ v^\ outside ventures. Eesisting the temptation to send a 

perfunctory report, the "Duke" gives us the follow- 
ing interesting items: 

"We have all recognized the -wonderful development 
in eleqtrieity as applied to street railways, and it may 
be of interest for me to state that I operated, in April, 
1888, the first electric car in Pittsburgh, and the first 
west of the Alleghany Mountains. This particular street 
railway, originally capitalized at $30,000, to-day is pay- 
ing dividends upon a capitalization of $1,400,000. I 
still retain my original interest in the stock of the com- 
pany. 

"In 1901 I became interested in the consolidation of 
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the bituminous coal interests in and about Pittsburgh 
and succeeded in bringing together and putting under 
control of an operating company upwards of 20,000 
acres of coal lands. In 1901, also, I was instrumental 
in locating in part the route by which the Wabash Eail- 
road system is to enter Pittsburgh and secure part of its 
enormous traffic. 

"That you may have some appreciation of what this 
traffic is, I would say that the tonnage into and out of 
Pittsburgh and its adjacent territory, including the 
boroughs of Homestead, Braddock, Duquesne and the 
city of McKeesport, is daily greater than the tonnage 
into and out of New York, Boston, St. Louis and New 
Orleans combined. Pittsburgh leads the world in ton- 
nage. Last year the traffic amounted to 100,000,000 
tons. 

"In 1902 I spent my summer vacation in British 
Columbia and became interested in a silver mine there 
that has developed into a very nice proposition, having 
at the present time returned' to its owners the original 
purchase money, together with the cost incident to de- 
velopment, and is, besides, paying large dividends an- 
nually. Encouraged with one success in mining, I be- 
came interested in other properties in the Northwest, 
which bid fair to become productive. 

"At the time of the last Eeunion I had under con- 
sideration a plan to help the Southern cotton-pickers. 
I found that throughout the South the problem of pick- 
ing the cotton is becoming more difficult each season. 
At the Patent Office there are more than nine hundred 
patents taken out for various kinds of cotton-pickers. 

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After years of experimenting it can now be said that 
Pittsburgh capital, enterprise and brains have evolved a 
cotton-picking machine which will pick more cotton in 
a day than forty negroes, and with less percentage 
of loss, an invention that will equal the cotton gin 
in usefulness. I may, of course, be excused for referring 
to this achievement in this way, but I feel that many of 
the Class will be pleased to know that I had no small 
part in helping to work out this great problem. 

"Having some clients who were developing oil terri- 
tory about Pittsburgh, I also became interested, and the 
result of negotiations has left several producing oil wells 
on my hands, which I do not object to having. 

"By reason of association with mining engineers, I 
have been enabled to locate and secure large acreages 
of coal with the necessary qualifications for producing 
coke equal to the far-famed Connellsville coke. This 
field is only twelve miles from Pittsburgh, and within a 
few months will be producing coke to supply our rolling 
mills at Pittsburgh, Sharon, New Castle and Youngs- 
town. 

"With the experience gained from long practice, I 
find it possible to accomplish more work as I grow 
older, and it seems to me now that it is possible to 
direct operations with almost as much satisfaction as 
when one attempts to do it all single-handed. This is 
an age for large operations, and the proper direction 
and guidance enable us to reap great results. 

"While 'Hendy' is writing poetry and songs, 'Paley* 
teaching new creeds, 'Variety' laying down Christ's 
doctrine, some few of us are working out practical sci- 

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ence in a way that will help all mankind and make it 
easier and better to live. 

"Children : My daughter Minnie Hays graduates this 
year from Vassar College, and my son Earl expects to be 
admitted to Princeton in the fall of 1906." 

HIKOICHI OEITA, 

Daisan - Koto - GakTco; residence, Kawwramachi 
Hirohoji 8agaru, Kyoto, Japan. 

Under date of May 27, 1906, Orita writes that his 
health had lately not been good, so that he did not feel 
equal to writing. Besides it is becoming increasingly 
difficult for him to write English. He says : "My family 
is the same /number as before, only the children have 
been grown and the parents getting old." 

The photograph of Orita and his children, Mrs. Orita 
is not in the group, was taken in December, 1901. 

From letters, received since the last Recoed was 
printed, we gain further information. Orita is the 
Director of the Daisan Koto-Gakko, or the Third Col- 
lege, having received the appointment in 1880. This 
position he has held continuously since, with the ex- 
ception of a year and a half from December, 1885, when 
he was transferred to the chair of Chief of the Bureau 
of School Affairs in Mombusho, i.e., the Educational 
Department. 

April 1, 1878, Orita was married to Satoko Ononye. 
They have eight children, six boys and two girls, as 
follows: Aritsune, born May 16, 1879; Aritomo, Sep- 
tember 12, 1881 ; Arihiko, December 10, 1883 ; Teruko, 
April 1, 1886; Ariyoshi, September 12, 1891; Arinobu, 

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March 15, 1893; Aritada, April 3, 1894, and Tayeko, 
July 6, 1899. The fourth and the last are girls. Orita 
naively remarks in giving this list : "Is there any one 
among our classmates to contess with me in getting so 
many offsprings ?'' 

The first two boys were educated in the State Mili- 
tary College and were at the front in the war with 
Eussia, with the rank of lieutenant. The oldest passed 
through the conflict unscathed ; the second was seriously 
wounded through the right lung in the battle of July 
25, 1904, was sent home to recuperate, and, when well 
again, rejoined his regiment, serving to the end of the 
war without further injury. 

Of his own work, Orita says : "The most important 
work to promote the welfare and standing of our coun- 
try is to produce useful men in every direction. Toward 
such an aim I believe I am doing good." 

Eegarding the war, he writes: "We could not bear 
longer the duplicity and grasping policy of Kussia. We 
knew very well we were inferior in wealth and populace, 
but it was the crisis either to live or die; so we de- 
termined to fight, believing Almighty will help us, for 
indeed we fight with her, not only for our right and 
honor, but for the cause of humanity and welfare of 
mankind." 

After peace was declared he expresses some dissatis- 
f iaction with the outcome, but adds : "We accomplished 
our formal objects. We offered many precious lives 
and paid a great price for this war to obtain the po- 
sition of our country in safety. Henceforth we must 
struggle with all our might to pay our great debt. I 

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Teally sympathize for the Eussians treated so inhumanly 
by their government. I believe this war did them a 
great good to be free from their cruel yoke. I hope 
they will succeed." 

An American missionary who taught for a time in 
Orita's college writes that Orita "is certainly a man 
among men." 

FEEDEEICK PAEKEE, A.B., A.M., 

offices, 12 West Main Street, Freehold, 15 Exchange 
Place, Jersey City; residence 95 Broad Street, Free- 
hold, New Jersey. 

"I have been engaged in the practice of my profes- 
sion in the State courts since last report. I was also re- 
appointed Eeferee in Bankruptcy by Judge Andre v\r 
Kirkpatrick, of the United States District Court, July 
1, 1902, and was subsequently re-appointed by his suc- 
cessor. Judge William M. Lanning, July 1, 1904. The 
practice in the Bankruptcy Court has been large in 
Monmouth County, and I have devoted a great deal of 
time and attention to the duties of this office. 

"I have not been guilty of inflicting upon the public 
any articles which might be deemed literary. I in- 
dulge occasionally in after-dinner speaking at Masonic 
and other social gatherings, and have, on rare occa- 
sions, addressed religious meetings. 

"During the last Presidential campaign I contributed 
several articles to the press of Monmouth County in 
advocacy of the 'safe and sane' policies of Judge Alton 
B. Parker, but, judging from the result of the election, 
they did not seem to have made any impression. I also 

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did some work on the stump for Charles C. Black, of the 
class of '78, who, under the circumstances, made a re- 
markable campaign in the interest of equal taxation, 
running 20,000 ahead of the Democratic Presidential 
candidate. While he was caught in the Eoosevelt ava- 
lanche, he has the satisfaction of knowing that his op- 
ponents have been forced to introduce into the Legis- 
lature equal taxation measures along the same lines 
which he advocated. 

"I have not taken a very active part in philanthropic, 
charitable or reform movements, although I contribute 
to the extent of my ability thereto. I have recently 
become a member of an organization in this county 
known as the Anti-bribery Association. Last April I 
was appointed by the Governor a life member of the 
Princeton Battle Monument Association. I am also 
a member of the Monmouth Battle Monument Associa- 
tion. 

"I am a member and Trustee of the First Presby- 
terian Church of Freehold, New -Jersey, and have in 
years past served on the Board of Deacons. 

"The honors which I have received are few and far 
between. I have not sought political office, but the 
Judges of the United States District Court seem to have 
sufficient confidence in me to retain me in the position 
of Eeferee in Bankruptcy, as above stated. I opened a 
law office in the Commercial Trust Building, Jersey 
City, January 1, 1906, where I may be found on any 
days except Thursdays and Saturdays, which are my 
regular days in Freehold. I retain my residence in 
Freehold, commuting between that point and Jersey 

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City. With Spencer Weart and myself in Jersey City, 
and Chandler Eiker in Kewark, it seems as if our clients 
of the Class of '76 ought to he amply protected in their 
legal rights whenever they are drawn within the net of 
the jurisdiction of the New Jersey courts. 

"I am a member of the Sons of the American Eevolu- 
tion, the New Jersey State Bar Association, of which 
I am a Trustee, and the National Association of Eef- 
erees in Bankruptcy. 

"My marriage was reported in previous Eecokds^ and 
there has been no change in my marital relations since. 

"In a previous Eecoed I reported tne birth of our 
son Eobert. Our second son, Edward Cummere, was 
horn January 2, 1902. No deaths. Eobert, ten years 
of age, attends the Freehold Military School. He is 
already looking forward to entering Princeton, although 
he will have a hard road to travel in the meantime." 

GEOEGE DUBOIS PAEMLY, M.D. Died December 
29, 1889. [See Eecord No. V., page 56.] 

EOBEET W. PATTEESON, 

6016 Howe Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
"Pat's" report is of the briefest. His family number 
the same as five years ago, and his son Eobert, who ac- 
companied him to the Eeunion, is preparing for Prince- 
ton, expecting to take his preliminaries next spring. 
"Pat's" devotion to the classics has not waned, as the 
following extracts from the Princeton Alumni Weekly 
show: 

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Kobert W. Patterson '76, of Pittsburgh, who has on 
former occasions presented to the University Library 
rare books in beautiful bindings, brought with him, on 
the day of the Yale game, and gave to the Library some 
exceptionally fine specimens of the printer's and bind- 
er's art. The chief of these are two copies of the first 
edition of Pine's Horace, London, 1733-37. One of 
these copies is unusually tall and wide, bound by 
Staggemeier of London in straight-grained, brown mo- 
rocco. The other was bound by Zaehnsdorf of London 
in the present year, in brown levant, inlaid with black 
and tooled in a butterfly pattern of unusual beauty. 
There is also another Horace, edited by Nilman in 1849, 
bound by Zaehnsdorf in green crushed levant. In ad- 
dition, Mr. Patterson presented a set of Sanby's editions 
of Juvenal, Persius, Horace, Terrence and Virgil, 
printed at various dates from 1749 to 1763, and a Pine's 
Virgil of 1774 bound by Eoger de Coverly. A very 
handsome edition of Marchetti's Italian translation of 
Lucretius completes the list. All these books are re- 
markable for their numerous plates, mostly reproduc- 
tions of antique gems, and for their excellent condition. 
In turning over to his Alma Mater these valuable vol- 
umes, Mr. Patterson remarked that they were too ex- 
pensive to keep in bis private library. — [November 19, 
1904.] 

Another gift of rare and interesting editions of 
classical authors has been received by the University 
Library from Kobert W. Patterson, '76, who, as an en- 
thusiastic collector, is a constant benefactor of his Alma 
Mater. The most noteworthy volume of his present 

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donation is the 1712 edition of Caesar, edited by Samuel 
Clarke, with eighty-seven large eopper pJate illustrations 
and twenty-nine vignettes, also on copper. The volume 
is bound in full Eussian by the celebrated Hoger Payne. 
It is a huge folio and the famous first edition, of this 
work, the Princeton copy being especially fine, not only 
for the brilliancy of the copper plate engravings, but 
also because it contains the noted folding plate of the 
French liull or Bos Gallicus, usually missing from 
copies of this work still extant, or mutilated when pres- 
ent. This is the volume of which Addison's Spectator 
said, "the finest book I have ever seen." — [February 3, 
1906.] 

The Class of '76 celebrated its thirthieth year with 
about fifty members back, the programme including a 
class prayer-meeting at the headquarters on University 
Place, Sunday night. During the Pifjunion fiobert W. 
Patterson, '76, of Pittsburgh, added to his gifts to the 
University Library a valuable collection of books, in- 
cluding bindings by Eoger Payne, Derorae, DeSauty, 
Eiviere and Smeers, volumes of emblems and rare cop- 
per-plate illustrations, and rare book-plat/;s, such as 
those of Horace Walpole, Croom, Syston Park, etc. The 
books are chiefly editions of the classics, and include 
Pine's Horace (bound by Eiviere), first issue; the 
Elzevir Horace, 1629; the Pickering Horace, 1826; the 
Didot Horace, 1855 (bound by Smeers) ; Vsenius' Em- 
blems illustrating Horace, 1682; Marchetti's Lucretius, 
1754; the Elzevir Terence, 1685; i'hff:drus' Fables, 
1667; Juvenal, Paris, 1754 (bound by Deromej ; Juve- 
nal and T*ersiu3, translated by Dryden (Syston Park 

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copy, once the property of Mitford, and alleged to be 
bound by Eoger Payne) ; Banier's Ovid, 1767-71, first 
edition, with very brilliant impressions ; Martyn's Virgil 
with colored plates (only sixty copies printed) ; Virgil, 
Dulau, 1800 ; and Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, with 
extra illustrations, in a remarkably handsome binding 
by DeSauty.— [June 16, 1906.] 

DAVID VANDEEVEEE PEERINE, 

55 West Main Street, Freehold, New Jersey. 
Perrine reports that he is still engaged in mercantile 
pursuits in Ereehold. He is a very active member of 
the Monmouth County Anti-Bribery Association and is 
an elder of the First Presbyterian Church. His club 
membership includes the Holland Society and the Sons 
of the American Eevolution. He married Elizabeth 
Wyckoff Conover on November 29, 1900. There are no 
children. With his customary modesty Davy declined 
to offer any suggestions for the betterment of the state 
of the undergraduates. Davy journeyed all the way 
to Des Moines last spring to attend the General As- 
sembly of the Presbyterian Church, and was one of the 
most ardent advocates of the election of Jim Barkley 
as Moderator. In a letter to the Secretary of the Class, 
Davy said: "I am satisfied Barkley would have been 
the right man in the right place, but am very sorry 
there were not more Jerseymen to vote for him." Then 
Davy, who is nothing, if not loyal, said: "I stood by 
him because he was a member of that solid Class of 
'76." 

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EEV. WILLIAM EDGAR PLUMLEY. Died May 
U, 1901. [See Record No. VIL, page 81.] 
Howard Plumlet (Class Boy) was married April 
12, 1906, to Miss Ada Southworth, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William T. Worrell, of Binghamton, New York. 

HON. JOHN C. L. PUGH, 

108y2 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio. 

Cook is still following his profession, the law, but 
has found time to engage in various other enterprises, 
in politics and in the military service. 

He is a Democrat, and his political record is as fol- 
lows: Chairman of the Franklin County delegation 
at the State Convention, 1889, and a member of the 
State Executive Committee in that campaign; Chair- 
man of the Franklin County delegation at the Cin- 
cinnati Convention, 1893; delegate to the National 
Democratic Convention, 1900, at Kansas City; dele- 
gate and member of the Committee on Resolutions at 
the State Convention, 1903; elected State Senator, 
1897, from the Tenth District, renominated in 1899, 
and defeated by a small plurality, running ahead of his 
ticket ; he has served as an officer and member of County 
and City Committees, and has made campaign speeches. 

His military record is equally lengthy. Enlisted as 
private, 1877, in Governor's Guard; First Lieutenant 
of Pugh Videttes, Co. A, 14th Regiment, 0. N. G., 
1881 ; Captain in 1883, and resigned in 1885 ; was in 
command of his company at the Corning riots in 1881; 
at the Cincinnati riots in 1884; was Secretary of the 

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National Guard Officers' Association of Ohio, 1884, 
and compiled its first record; at present is one of the 
officers of the 4th — 14th Veteran Association and a 
member of the Governor's Guard Veteran Association; 
organized the Junia Hussars, Troop No. 1, P. M., of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is still in com- 
mand; also a life member of the Military Staff of the 
Grand Sire of the same order. He organized a coal 
company in 1905, and is Secretary of it. 

His son, J. C. L., Jr., is a sophomore at Kenyon 
College, Gambler, Ohio. 

He was married a second time on September 6, 1903, 
to Mary F. Doyle. 

EEV. HAERIS G. RICE, 

Monticello, Indiana. 

He is pastor, and has been for twelve years, of the 
Presbyterian Church at Monticello. Eeports no pub- 
lications, and is engaged in Anti-Saloon League work. 
He has been Stated Clerk of the Logansport Presbytery 
for five years, and was re-elected in March, 1906, for 
a further term of three years. He is a member of the 
C. L. S. and an organizer for seven years past. He has 
six children, and his son Herbert is a senior at Wooster, 
Ohio. He says: "I am not prepared to suggest any 
improvement for the social or moral condition of the 
students, as I am ignorant of the present conditions, 
except in a general way." 

Dan was a delegate to the Presbyterian General As- 
sembly that met at Des Moines last May. 

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HOE". CHAXDLEE W. EIKEE, 

16 Jf MarTcet Street, NevjarTc, New Jersey. 

'1 am always delighted to hear from you and to meei 
or hear from, any of our classmates. The fact is, how- 
ever, that I am not making history, personal or other- 
wise. 

'\My family consists of a wife and four children, three 
girls and a boy. 

"The only publication which has attracted attention 
was a paper submitted to the Legislature of Xew 
Jersey on the subject of taxation. I am tr}dng to do 
my part in the world and help to bear '^the white man's 
burden.' 

"It was my full intention to be present at the Class 
Eeunion, but I was unexpectedly prevented. 

"There is only one thing the matter with me, and that 
is that I rather dislike to confess how little I have 
accomplished during the last five years." 

The "Chancellor' has been County Prosecutor of 
Essex Count}^, Xew Jersey, retiring in the fall of 1904. 
About the same time he was elected Chairman of G-ov- 
emor ]^Iurphv's Equal Taxation Commission, whose 
report was to be submitted to the next Legislature. His 
name has been mentioned several times this year in 
connection with the United States Senatorship. 

ALDEX e:ellogg EILEY, 

■Jennings, Louisiana. 
Jn 1902 "Chub" resigned from his position as Man- 
ager of the Loan Department of the Xational Life and 
Trust Company, Des Moines, Iowa, and became Secre- 

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tary of the Big Mound Oil Company, which had prop- 
erty in Texas and Louisiana. The development of it 
did not prove as profitable as was hoped, and in 1905 
Eiley retired from it. At about the same time he be- 
came blind from cataracts. These were removed, and 
to quote his own words, "since then I have been hustling 
to re-establish myself in business life, and coming here 
(Jennings, Louisiana) have engaged in the buying (and 
selling to consumers over Texas and Louisiana) of the 
natural fuel oil known as crude petroleum. I am en- 
couraged to great hopes over my venture. It was like 
starting life anew, but with a large experience back 
of it." 



EEV. EDWIN P. EOBINSOF, 
Dauphin, Pennsylvania. 
"History very meager and uneventful. Cheeriest 
greetings to all the fellows." Of the Eeunion, he writes : 
"I am disappointed and grieved that I cannot come. 
I would enjoy the occasion so much. We did have such 
good times, and as the years go. by, I am drawn into 
closer bonds of kindly and prayerful interest for all 
that remain. I trust that many years may yet be 
given to all that now are of ^76, so that each may do 
his part more nobly than ever and fulfill his high call- 
ing for the world's best interest and highest destiny 
in the name of the Master." 



EOBEET J. EOSS. Died April 10, 1879. [See 
Eecoed No. IV., page 93.] 

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WILBEE F. EUDY, 

Care of Dr. F. T. Rudy, Cham^paign, Illinois. 
From Dr. Eudy, Wilber's brother, it is learned that 
about two years ago Eudy sold his cattle and horse 
ranch on the Cheyenne Eiver, South Dakota. He had 
been there for many years and had prospered. Since 
then he has been heard from at irregular intervals from 
various points in the West, the last time from St. Louis. 

HEKEY M. EUSSELL, 

office, 39 Broadway, New YorTc City; residence, 378 
Court Street, Brooklyn, New Yorh. 

"In answer to the circular, I can only say that the 
Eecord of 1901 about covers the ground for me in the 
present situation. ISTot having been adopted by anybody 
since my last report, my name and address are both still 
the same. I have followed closely the lines of my profes- 
sion, the law, and so have been unable to indulge much 
in any outside work. My history has been of the hiun- 
drum, daily-struggle order, and I have received no ad- 
ditional honors or degrees. I have taken a lively in- 
terest in politics, but have held no political office. I 
have, however, refused several offers of political prefer- 
ment for the reason that I have neither the time nor 
the money to expend on the glittering bauble, and not 
because I dislike so much the public service. 

"I am as ever a staunch Eepublican, and a great ad- 
mirer of Eoosevelt. The cup of v^edded bliss has not 
yet been pressed to my lips, and I still belong, with 
Johnnie, to the 'Old Guard.' I am a member of the 
Crescent Athletic, and also the Citizens' Club. Am a 

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Baptist, as always. Have interested myself in local 
measures for the betterment of the community, but 
none of general interest. 

"I think the Preceptorial System a most decided step 
in the right direction. For either we must follow the 
university system of Europe or get in closer touch with 
the student body; and as we are not ready for the 
former, the Preceptorial System most nearly accom- 
plishes the desired result of bringing 'the teacher and 
the teachee' into closer personal relations.^' 

EEV. HAEEIS EOGERS SCHENCK. Died June 21, 
1898. [See Eecoed No. VII., page 97.] 
Elsie Mercein, daughter of Mary A. and the late 
Eev. Harris E. Schenck, died at Bronxville, New York, 
August 18, 1905, in her nineteenth year. 

HON. GEOEGE D. SCUDDEE, 

Jf9 West Fourth Street, Portsmouth, Ohio. 

"Scud" is still engaged in the practice of the law, 
with real estate as a prominent side issue. He has 
handled some large deals in mineral lands, and is also 
interested personally in the same kind of property. 

He is a Trustee of Free Kindergarten Schools and 
a member of the Board of County Visitors. 

Took an active part in the reform movement that led 
to the election in 1905 of Patterson as Governor of 
Ohio. 

He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and the 
superintendent of the Sabbath-school. 

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His only child, Charles Damarin, is a member of 
the class of 1907, Princeton, academic department. 

EEV. L. J. SHOEMAKEK, 
Harlansburg, Pennsylvania. 
He is pastor of the Unity Baptist Church at Harlans- 
burg, Pennsylvania, also Clerk of the Beaver Baptist As-> 
sociation, which position he has held for the past four 
years. Politically he favors prohibition, and gives his 
influence accordingly. His report as to children is as 
follows : Lorraine J. graduated at the State Normal 
School, Clarion, Pa., and took the classical course at 
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, for one 
year. Albert J. graduated at Marietta College, Marietta, 
Ohio, in 1905, and is taking his first year in the Theo- 
logical Seminary at Hartford, Connecticut. Parshall 
M. died August 17, 1901. The twins, Frank L. and 
Florence E., are in the High School at Harlansburg. 

FEANKLIN" BUCHANAN SMITH, M.D., 

Court Square, Frederick City, Maryland. 

"I have been working hard with reasonable success in 
my professional field, but nothing startling. Nothing 
literary except a few magazine articles on medical sub- 
jects, and papers read before medical societies and asso- 
ciations. 

"My only son, F. Buchanan, aged twenty-three, died 
in November, 1903. He had been prepared at Mercers- 
burg for Princeton, and was admitted to the freshman 

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class in 1903. He never entered, but began the study 
of medicine at the University of Maryland." 

PEANK SAFFOED SMITH died September 19, 1903, 
at Warwick, Orange County, New York, after a long 
illness due to valvular heart trouble. For over ten 
years he had been a resident of Warwick, having gone 
there in the hope that the climate would prove bene- 
ficial to his health, not then rugged, as he had been 
suffering recently from nervous prostration. As the 
appended article from a Warwick paper indicates, 
Frank took an active part in the varied interests of the 
town, and he was highly esteemed by his fellow citizens. 
He was in Princeton at the Sesquicentennial, October 
22, 1896, greatly enjoyed meeting the members of the 
Class then present, and regretted that he had not been 
able to attend more of the reunions. At Warwick, 
"Blondy" had as a neighbor Frank Dunning, who was 
constant in his attentions during his illness, and at 
the funeral acted as one of the pallbearers. 

H. L. H. 

After a tedious and distressing illness of many 
months Frank Safford Smith died at his home in this 
village Saturday night, at 10.30 o'clock. 

He v^as the son of the late George W. Smith and 
Ellen M. Walton, and was born at Lawrence, Mass- 
achusetts, November 26, 1852. He attended a private 
school in Newark in his youth, and before entering 
Princeton College he spent eighteen months abroad, 
traveling through Germany with a private tutor. Grad- 




Theodore W. Hunt, Ph.D., L.H.D. 



iiating from Princeton in 1876 he soon afterward went 
into business, taking a position in the accounting de- 
partment of the John Hancock Life Insurance Com- 
pany, which was managed by his father. 

Failing health compelled him to give up business for 
a time, however, and in 1892 Mr. Smith came to War- 
wick, where he has since resided. Although not in 
vigorous health, Mr. Smith loved to be employed, and 
his natural talents and education peculiarly fitted him 
for the keeping of accounts and the computation of 
figures. For several years he was a valued employee 
of the accounting department of the Lehigh & Hudson 
Eailroad, and was also for a time the manager and 
bookkeeper of the Warwick Valley Light and Power 
Company. He was chosen Police Justice of the village 
by a popular vote for several terms ; he was also Secre- 
tary of the Warwick Athletic Association and of the 
Warwick Club. In all his business relations Mr. Smith 
was prompt, accurate, and painstaking. His friendships 
were extensive and lasting, and he was held in high 
regard by the community as a man who tried to do his 
duty on all occasions. 

Mr. Smith was a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church and served for several years as a Vestryman 
and for a time as Treasurer of Christ Episcopal Church 
of this village. 

In the year 1885 Mr. Smith was married to Miss 
Henrietta F. Horrie, daughter of the late Eev. J. Wes- 
ley Horrie, of Southport, Connecticut, who, with three 
children, survive. 

The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at Christ 

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Church and interment made in Warwick Cemeteiy. — 
[Warwick, September 33, 1903.] 

KEV. J. A. LIVINGSTON SMITH, 

325 East King Street, York, Pennsylvania. 
"The past ten years have been devoted largely to the 
education of my children and to such ministerial labors 
as my feeble health permitted me to render to the 
churches of this city and vicinity. Much of my time 
has been given to the supplying of vacant churches and 
to the promotion of the cause of Missions by lectures 
and correspondence. The cause of Home Missions among 
the Mormons of Utah has engaged much of my time, and 
I have found a large field of usefulness in acquainting 
the churches of the various denominations with the 
peculiar doctrines, polity and practice of Mormonism 
as the basis and the incentive of missionary effort on 
behalf of its deluded victims. At no time since my en- 
forced retirement from the Mission field in 1896 has 
my health permitted my return, nor the performance 
of the duties of the pastorate ; but for much of the time 
the Lord has blessed me with the opportunity and the 
ability to render a service that has been full of Joy and 
recompense, and, in many respects, fully as important 
and as fruitful as that of any part of my missionary 
experience. In fact my ministry on behalf of Missions 
in later years has been rendered possible only by ex- 
peiience in Missions in former years and an abiding 
zeal on their behalf. My acquaintance with polygamous 
neighbors for fifteen years in Utah has been a factor 
in preventing my marrying again 'since last report.' 

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The best reason is that the best wife any man ever 
knew has been spared to me since I reported my ma- 
trimonial experience many years ago. 

"Children : Mary and Ethel are graduates of the 
Business College and are professional stenographers. 
Maud and Hodge are graduates of our local High 
School, and the latter is now a freshman in the Penn- 
sylvania State College, and Maud will enter Park Col- 
lege next year." 

To the sixth question "Jai" answers : "Eealization 
on the part of the officials, and especially of the faculty, 
that the soul of a student is of infinitely more value for 
time and eternity than his brawn or his brain, and that 
there is no education that is either safe or sane that 
neglects the symmetrical discipline and culture of the 
whole man — body, mind and soul. 

"The crime of college education is the comparative 
neglect (if not utter disregard) of the student's higher — 
moral and spiritual — nature, and the failure to provide 
the oversight and discipline that are absolutely indis- 
pensable to prevent the moral ruin of a large propor- 
tion of our boys, who are thus prematurely deprived of 
parental care and counsel and the safeguards of the 
home during this crucial period of their lives. There 
is no conceivable excuse in any college for the tolera- 
tion of vice and immorality in the form of drinking 
and betting and gambling and carousals that would be 
deemed disgraceful in the homes and in the commun- 
ities from which the students come, and be restrained 
by both law and public sentiment anywhere outside of 
college walls. Until the college authorities recognize 

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the flagrancy of their dereliction in these fundaments of 
social and moral culture^ It would seem superfluous to 
suggest anything further by way of improving the 
social and moral conditions of students at Princeton, 
or elsewhere. My heart's desire and prayer for Prince- 
ton is that the moral culture reform may begin within 
her walls and sweep the land." 

M. ALLEN" STARR, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., ScD., 

5 West Fifty-fourth Street, New York City. 

Professor of Neurology, College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Columbia University. 

Publications: "Tumor of the Brain, with Success- 
ful Removal"; "Tumor of the Spinal Cord, with Suc- 
cessful Removal," Presbyterian Hospital Reports, 1903; 
"The Vanderbilt Clinic," Columbia University Quar- 
terly, March, 1901; "The Toxic Origin of Neurasthe- 
nia," iVew YorTc Medical Record, June, 1901; "The 
Causation of Multiple Neuritis," The Medical News, 
January 2, 1902 ; "Tumor of the Spinal Cord, with Re- 
moval," Philadelphia Medical Journal, February 2, 
1902; "Arterial Sclerosis as a Cause of Nervous Dis- 
ease," New YorTc Medical Record, July, 1903 ; "Organic 
Nervous Diseases," pp. xiv., 751. Lea Brothers & Co., 
Philadelphia, July, 1903, second edition in prepara- 
tion; "The Results of Surgical Treatment of Brain 
Tumors," Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, July, 
1903; "The Diagnosis of Brain Diseases: Reference 
Hand-book of Medical Science," Wm. Wood & Co., pp. 
14; "The Diagnosis of Spinal Cord Diseases," Wm. 
Wood & Co., pp. 13; "Cases of Double Consciousness," 

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Journal of Philosophy and Psychology, January, 1904; 
"Is Epilepsy a Functional Disease?" Journal of Ner- 
vous and Mental Disease, March, 1904; "Lectures 
on Diseases of the Nervous System," pp. 90, October, 
1904. 

"I am consulting neurologist to the Presbyterian Hos- 
pital, St. Vincent's Hospital, New York Eye any Ear 
Infirmary, St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, Muh- 
lenburg Hospital. Am Treasurer of the West Side Day 
Nursery. 

"In politics I am an Independent. 

"Am a member of St. George's Episcopal Church. 

"I was made corresponding member of the Societe de 
Neurologic, Paris, in 1901, also corresponding mem- 
ber of the Society of Neurology of the United Kingdom, 
London, 1903 ; was given degree of Doctor of Science by 
Columbia, October, 1904. 

"University, Century Association, Princeton, Tuxedo, 
Ecwanok Golf and Bedford Golf Clubs. 

"Children : Allen Egbert Starr, born January 19, 
1903 ; Katharine Eunice Starr, March 1, 1904." 

Starr's election to a corresponding membership in the 
Society of Neurology of the United Kingdom was in 
recognition of his contributions to the advanced study 
of nervous diseases. Dr. S. "Weir Mitchell is said to be 
the only other American who has been thus honored. 

Early in 1904 Starr was appointed Chairman of the 
Section of Abnormal Psychology of the International 
Congress of Arts and Sciences, which was to meet at 
the St. Louis World's Fair in September, 1904. 

Princeton conferred the degree of Ph.D. in 1885 and 
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of LL.D. in 1899. Columbia gave the degree of Doctor 
of Science at the one hundred and fiftieth anniver- 
sary of the foundation of that university. 

EEV. ALEXANDER EUSSELL STEVENSON, D.D. 
6 Union Street, Schenectady, New York. 

"Since my last report I have simply continued as 
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. I came here April 1, 1888, and so have 
been here about eighteen years. This church is famous 
for long pastorates. Eev. Timothy G. Darling, D.D., 
was here fifteen years, 1873 to 1888, and Eev. Jona- 
than Trumbull Backus, D.D., was here forty years, 1832 
to 1872. Schenectady as a city has grown wonderfully 
and our church colonized four years ago, and its daugh- 
ter, the Union Presbyterian Church, bids fair to be as 
vigorous and successful as the old church. 

"Children: Thomas Kennedy graduated as a civil 
engineer at Princeton, in the class of 1905, and is at 
present taking a students' course in practical mechani- 
cal engineering in the Schenectady Works of the Amer- 
ican Locomotive Co. and living at home. The other 
two boys are enthusiastic candidates for Princeton." 

EEV. GEOEGE BLACK STEWAET, D.D., LL.D., 

182 North Street, Auburn, New Yorlc. 

a. "President Auburn Theological Seminary. 

b. " "^An Advanced Course of Sunday-school Lessons 
in the life of Jesus.' Editor of Auburn Seminary 
Record. Occasional articles. 'Normal Class Outlines.' 

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f , "LL.D. from Washington and Jefferson College, of 
Washington, Pa., at its centennial, October, 1902. 

"My eldest child, Helen, was a member of the class 
of 1902 at Bryn Mawr, but, on account of an attack of 
typhoid fever, had to leave in junior year. My second 
child, Harris Bates, graduated from Princeton in 1903, 
and will graduate from Auburn Seminary in May, 1906, 
and becomes assistant pastor in the Second Presbyterian 
Church of this city. My third child, George B., Jr., 
graduates from Princeton in 1906. The fourth child, 
Weir, is in the Grammar School of this city. None of 
my children are married." 

"Paley" was made Chairman of the Sunday-school 
department of the Eeligious Education Association in 
August, 1903. 

After a prolonged illness his wife died July 2, 1903. 

HENEY C. SYMMES, M.D., 

Cr anbury. New Jersey. 

Eeports that he was chagrined to receive the — usual 
— second notice from the Committee, and of course 
blames it on his calendar. He says he has received 
no titles since his last report, and that his life has been 
uneventful ; he has been very busily engaged in his pro- 
fessional work. 

He is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church ; has 
no children, and hence no grandchildren. He asks the 
Committee to give him as high a grade as possible on 
his paper, and to remember him as a loyal member of 
the Class of '76. 

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JOHN MADISON TAYLOE, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

150J{- Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

"Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadel- 
phia, Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, 
Associate Editor of the Monthly Cyclopedia of Practical 
Medicine, etc. 

"The most that can be said of me professionally is a 
large increase in my respect for the wide realm of 
things I don't know. I am swayed by an intense de- 
sire to learn several things yet unknown in physiology 
and the fundamental principles of my craft. 

"My chief ambition is to be able to take a period of 
special studies abroad, or here, to clear up uncertainties 
and to add a few thoughts and one or two facts. 

"My book on 'Diseases of Children,' second edition 
(joint authorship with Wm. H. Wells), has been trans- 
lated into Italian by Mario Flamini, of Rome, and pub- 
lished in Turin, Italy. 

"A distinction has been conferred upon me by Prof. 
Joseph Jastrow, of Madison, Wis., in dedicating to me 
his recent book, *The Subconscious.' 

"Politically I always stood for high-grade Republi- 
canism as exemplified by my friend and aforetime ranch 
companion (1886) Theodore Roosevelt, in whom from 
my earliest acquaintanceship I have had an increasing 
confidence. 

"Of course I hear a lot of sneers and worse from many 
of my oldest friends, but on scrutiny they usually stand 
revealed as in some way personally involved in the Trust 
business, directly or indirectly. They will now get over 
it. Fortunately I am clear of all that — poor and cheer- 

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ful — with nothing to conceal^, and but little to invest. 

"I am always attracted by sound, honest reform, espe- 
cially on medical lines, and as editor endeavor to abet 
this in all rational ways. Civic reform has come my 
way, too, and Vve done my little best. Made quite a 
few speeches in the Weaver campaign, wrote some ap- 
peals to the lay press, etc., here and elsewhere. 

"The cause of the oppressed and down-trodden child 
appeals to me, too, especially the child of defective men- 
tality. In the recent National Conference of Charities 
and Correction I made a long address on 'difficult boys,' 
which I hope may do some good. 

"Clubs interest me when they serve a purpose — and I 
am busy on the governing board of several clubs and 
societies. 

"My children remain the same except that my young- 
est daughter, Mabel, is married to Gilford A. Cochran 
and lives in New York. 

"My son Percival is a full-fledged mechanical engi- 
neer and busy in successful professional work. 

"I am emphatic in my desire to see the students of 
Princeton amplify their collective control over indiscre- 
tions committed by the student body. They already 
have been doing noble work by their self-constituted 
committees. May they be encouraged and upheld in 
their initiative." 

PEOF. HENRY ALFEED TODD, Ph.D., 

82J^ West End Avenue, New York, and ''BrocMe- 
hanlc," NorfolJc, Connecticut. 
"Professor of Eomance Philology, Columbia Univer- 
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sity, New York; President of the American Modern 
Language Association (for the meeting to be held at 
Yale University in December, 1906) ; Speaker on the 
Present Problems in Eomance Philology, Congress of 
Arts and Science, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 
1904; Editor-in-chief for French, Appleton's Twentieth 
Century Series of College Text-books; Trustee and 
member of Executive Committee, Independent Club, 
New York. 

"Member : American Philological Association ; Amer- 
ican Oriental Society; American Dialect Society; Amer- 
ican Dante Society; National Geographic Society; Civil 
Service Eeform Association; Metropolitan Museum of 
Art; Municipal Art Society; Century Association 
of New York; Fourth Presbyterian Church, New 
York. 

"Life member: Societe des Anciens Textes Fran- 
gais; Hispanic Society; American Numismatic and Ar- 
chaeological Society; American Bible Society. 

"Family record the same as in last report." 

EGBERT NAIENE TGDD, 

Hurlock, Dorchester County, Maryland. 
"I am living now in Dorchester County, Maryland, 
and am engaged in mercantile business and insurance, 
as for the last four years, and I am doing very well." 
"Toddy" wrote that it would not be possible for him 
to attend the Eeunion, as the demands of business at 
that time of the year were very exacting. However, he 
did appear Monday afternoon, June 11, for perhaps an 

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hour or two, to disappear as suddenly, just as he did 
five years ago. 

AETHUE BALDWIN TUENUEE died Good Friday, 
April 13, 1906, at his home, 109 East Seventy-first 
Street, New York, from pneumonia, after two days' ill- 
ness. He was born in New York City, the only son of 
David M. and Mary (Baldwin) Turnure, and a nephew 
of Lawrence Turnure. After his graduation at Prince- 
ton, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, but he 
practiced for but a short time. 

While at the law school he had acted as correspond- 
ent for several metropolitan dailies, and in 1878 he 
founded and became Editor of The Art Interchange, the 
first applied art journal in this country. Having sold 
•this journal in 1881, he began The Art Age, and formed 
a partnership with a firm of printers, printing in 1886 
our Class Eecord. In all these publications Turnure 
aimed at a high standard of art as applied to the pub- 
lishing business, and in 1891 and 1892 he was with 
Harper & Brothers, in charge of their art department, 
during which period he produced a richly illustrated 
edition of General Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur," very 
highly praised by critics. 

Carrying out the same idea of the advancement of art 
in the publication of books, Turnure aided in the or- 
ganization of The Grolier Club, designed to bring into 
closer touch the makers and publishers of books, and to 
exhibit statedly to book-lovers fine examples of printing 
and binding. Leaving the Harpers, he established 
Vogue, a fashion periodical, of which he was editor, 

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publislier and the largest stockholder. To its produc- 
tion he applied the same high standards of art in publi- 
cation that had marked his preceding enterprises, and 
in addition produced a magazine clean in tone, enter- 
taining, and authoritative as to all the interests that 
pertain to its peculiar sphere. 

In the latter part of 1905, Turnure threw himself 
with energy into a movement for reorganization of the 
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was 
a member of the Princeton, Calumet, Grolier and 
Meadow Brook Hunt Clubs and of the Architectural 
League. He is survived by his widow and one son, Da- 
vid, aged seven. 

As an undergraduate Turnure was a founder, and 
chairman of the first board of editors, of the Bric-a- 
Brac, and it was largely due to his efforts that the first 
number of that publication was such a success, giving 
singular prophecy of the ideal that he strove to attain 
during all his subsequent years. A man of the high- 
est integrity, a wise and sympathetic counsellor to strug- 
gling artists and writers, he leaves a vacancy that will 
be hard to fill. He was a member of the Episcopal 
Church. 

The last paragraph of Turnure's report in the Eec- 
ORD of 1901 is even more striking now than then : 

" 'Observations on Life' — a most enticing trap for 
the unwary ! 

"I observe that the twenty-five years have passed as a 
'watch in the night' ; that the future still has the allure- 
ments of hope; that one's judgment on others grows 
gentler as years mellow ; that old friends are dearer and 

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the simple virtues are still the most enduring, the most 
potent; that kindness, courage and truth yearly rise 
higher in our esteem, and that the rarest of all virtues, 
loyalty, grows still rarer; that he has the most capacity 
for enjoyment whose appreciations include most, and 
that no man need live in a fog of commonplace if he 
but practice rising above his own petty horizon; which 
is but saying that one's ability to rise above one's nat- 
ural horizon is the greatest blessing derived from a uni- 
versity education." 

EEV. ALBEET VAN DEUSEN. Died January 10, 
1886. [See Eecord No. IV., page 110.] 

JOHN SKILLMAN VAN DIKE, 

JiO East State Street, Trenton, New Jersey. 
"Van" reports no change in events of life worthy of 
comment. He has been attending strictly to the prac- 
tice of his profession, the law. He has a boy, John 
Leroy, who is attending the Eand Collegiate School in 
Trenton, in the academic course. He says : "It seems 
to me that the new departure in the methods of instruc- 
tion should be the very best means of improving the 
social and moral condition of the students at Prince- 
ton, because of the closer personal relations between 
teachers and taught, which have been so noticeably ab- 
sent for many years." 

WILLIAM B. VAN LENNEP, M.D., 

11^21 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
"Big Van" writes as follows: "I have read my ac- 
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count in the last Class Book, 1901, and that about fills 
the bill for 1906. I am older, happier, more prosper- 
ous, wiser, and glad I am alive. I love my Class and 
Princeton more than ever." 

The boys greatly regretted that "Van" was called 
away and could not remain through the Class 
Dinner. 

On the 5th of December, 1903, a dinner was given 
to "Van" by his colleagues of the medical profession at 
the Bellevue Hotel, Philadelphia, in celebration of his 
fiftieth birthday, and a handsome silver punch-bowl 
was presented to him. 

"Van" is a member of the Graduate Advisory Com- 
mittee on Athletics at Princeton, first Vice-President of 
the Union League Club of Philadelphia, member of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, Philadelphia 
County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical 
Society, Philadelphia Clinical Society, etc., etc. 

LAPSLEY GEEENE WALKEE, 

Chattanooga^ Tennessee. 

"Yap" Walker sends in response to the Committee's 
circular the following: 

"My name is the same as it was in the days of '76, 
although I register now from Chattanooga, Tennessee, 
and not from Eogersville. Since my last report noth- 
ing has happened to me except the pleasurable prosecu- 
tion of my editorial duties. I was promoted in 1903 
from Managing Editor to Editor-in-Chief of The Chat- 
tanooga Times, which position I now hold. 

"My professional duties have been too exacting to per- 
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mit of any outside literary work, although I have found 
time to write a few skits, which, while finding publish- 
ers, have brought me neither fame nor fortune. I have 
had some satisfaction, however, in the assurances of 
those who have had opportunities to judge that my work 
has been satisfactory and not altogether without influ- 
ence in the circle in which it has been directed. 

"I have had no political ambitions, but have had the 
pleasure of declining several offers of public oflSce. I 
have declined them not so much because I do not like 
the public service, but because I can best serve the 
public, as well as myself, by attending strictly to my 
professional duties. 

"As I told President Wilson at the dinner given him 
by the Tennessee Alumni Association at Nashville, I 
have nothing to suggest for the improvement of condi- 
tions at Princeton except that it would rejoice me al- 
ways to feel that Princeton turned out none but manly 
men, with honesty of purpose written all over their 
characters and whose chief aim in life is fidelity to the 
highest ideals of good citizenship and American man- 
hood — for in my judgment the time is not far off when 
the country will need that sort of men and need them 
badly. 

"I have been greatly interested in promoting techni- 
cal education in the South, and have succeeded in arous- 
ing public sentiment in my own State to an extent, I 
think, that will bear fruit. I have likewise been active 
in advocacy of reformatories for juvenile offenders and 
youthful incorrigibles and have been measurably suc- 
cessful in the creation of a healthy public sentiment 

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that, I think, will eventuate in the founding of a State 
institution. This, I believe, is a feature of public serv- 
ice the importance of which the average citizen does not 
appreciate. By segregating youthful offenders from ad- 
ult criminals and misdemeanants we go a long way 
toward depopulating the jails and penitentiaries of the 
future. 

"I am a member — I might say an enthusiastic mem- 
ber — of the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club, the 
only social organization to which I find time to 
belong." 

"Yap" has recently been elected Grand Captain- 
General of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar 
in Tennessee. 

"Yap" declined election to the Board of Public Works 
of Chattanooga. He was formerly the Chairman of 
that Board and President of the Hamilton County Elec« 
tion Commission. 

In a recent issue of Newspaperdom his portrait ap- 
peared, and a sketch, from which the following is taken : 
"He has always been in the forefront of political action, 
championing honest elections and good government for 
a quarter of a century. His work is distinguished by 
stern loyalty to conviction and singleness of purpose, 
while in controversy no rancor nor bitterness mars the 
effects of his labors — a mind in perfect harmony with 
all that tends to public welfare and the betterment of 
mankind." 

LEWIS MALPORD WALKER. Died May 10, 1878. 
[See Record No. IV., page 119.] 

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Cyrus F. Brackett, M.D., LL.D. 



EEV. DE LACEY WAEDLAW, 

Bell Buckle, Tennessee. 

"1 taught in the High School in Bell Buckle, 1901-03. 
Then I had grippe and appendicitis, and went to the 
plains in Western Texas in the spring of 1903, remain- 
ing in Texas eighteen months. I returned with health 
restored, lectured, preached some and did various things 
and had much interesting experience. 

"No ecclesiastical connection. I am heretical, quoad 
some fundamental doctrine of each denomination. In- 
tellectually I am a Presbyterian. 

"I am a member of fraternal societies only. 

"My family have remained in Bell Buckle, where my 
children have prepared for college at Welb's School. 
The last is now taking the course. Securing their edu- 
cation has been our chief business. 

"Children : Virginia, after finishing school, taught in 
Tennessee, in the mountains of Kentucky, in Texas and 
Mexico. She taught in New York City last year. 
She lives at a Deaconess Settlement in New York, 
works in a Spanish mission, and also acts as an 
interpreter. 

"Blanche Lewis was educated at Welb's School, taught 
in Nashville one year, next was in charge of a Settle- 
ment, now is in a training hospital for nurses. She 
wished to go as a missionary, but I knew she was too 
young and had not yet been tried at home, my experi- 
ence being that half of the women missionaries should 
never have gone, that none should go under twenty-five, 
and these only after they have been well tried and have 
learned to do something at home. Blanche has also 

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had one summer working in 'Bloody Breathitt' in the 
Kentucky mountains. 

"Eloise prepared for college and took the Vanderbilt 
University examinations. She is now teaching and may 
go to the university next year. She wants to be a mis- 
sionary, but has only had one vacation trial in Home 
Mission work in the mountains. She also is too young 
and unprepared. 

"I think missionary work at present is the most need- 
ful, important and the highest calling for a professing 
Christian, but for that reason it needs the best men and 
women and the highest possible training, so I am trying 
to hold the children down to that. 

"Caroline is now at school, and will take two more 
years to be ready for college." 

SPENCEE WEAET, 

76 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey. 

"There is nothing to report as of special interest con- 
cerning myself. I still live in my native city and am 
practicing law, with due regard to my health, at 76 
Montgomery Street, Jersey City. 

"Last summer (1905) it seemed to me that without 
any legal right the automobile drivers were appropri- 
ating the highways in the country parts of New Jersey ; 
to give a note of warning I wrote a letter to the Somer- 
set County Board of Freeholders; this appeared in the 
county paper and I was visited at my home by some 
of my neighbors and the result was the formation of the 
Highway Protectors' Association, which conducted the 
automobile discussions which attracted such wide atten- 

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tion in the legislature last winter. I send the Associ- 
ation's literature, which yon will find interesting as 
reading-matter, and as you like to keep in touch with 
what might be called the unusual activities of the Class, 
it may be a matter of interest to know my connection 
with a timely protest." 

From the Little One's contribution to this literature 
we present his remedy for the driving of automobiles 
at high speed on public roads: 

"I would suggest as a remedy that on the macadam 
roads in the country districts at every half-mile a de- 
pression be made deep enough to break the machine that 
goes over it at terrific speed, and that at such places 
a turnout of macadam be made on each side of the road 
with a sufficient radius to permit vehicles driven by 
horses to keep on at the ordinary speed at which horses 
are driven, which is the only speed that should be tol- 
erated on our public roads." 

HENRY HORACE WEBSTER. Died January 17, 
1891. [See Record No. V., page 85.] 

REV. IRVING ELISHA WHITE, 
Port Chester, New YorTc. 
"Since my last report I have been preaching the same 
blessed gospel to which my earlier years were devoted. 
In 1886 I removed from Hobart, New York, where I 
commenced my ministry, to Peekskill, New York, where 
I was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian 
Church. There I continued till the spring of 1896, 
when, because of failing health of both Mrs. White and 

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myself, I resigned and we took a year of rest. In May, 
1897, we removed to this place and I became pastor of 
the Presbyterian Church here. For several years I was 
stated supply, but was installed as pastor in 1902, and 
so continue. 

"Mrs. White, after a long illness, dating, indeed, from 
the time of our removal from Peekskill, died April 23, 
1903. 

"I have been busy during the year with such cares as 
naturally fall to a country pastor. My honors have 
been such only as a kind and affectionate people have 
been able to confer. I love my life work and have been 
favored with good success in each of the pastorates I 
have filled. I have contented myself with the member- 
ship in the Church and the Alumni Association of 
Union Theological Seminary.^' 

"Si" was a delegate to the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church that met at Des Moines last May. 

WILLIAM H. WHITTLESEY, 

in care of Charles F. Whittlesey, Esq., Seattle, 
Washington. 

Billy's brother, Charles F. Whittlesey, '74, has kindly 
furnished the following information: 

"He has been in Alaska off and on for four or five 
years past, and is now at Seward with some position on 
the Alaska Central Eailroad, which is heading from 
Seward into the Tanana mining district. He was for 
a Mobile Recorder of the Kayak mining district, and 
later on Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for that dis- 
trict." 

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EEV. EOBEET DICK WILSON, D.D., 

Princeton, New Jersey. 

"Bob" still holds the professorate of Semitic Phi- 
lology and Old Testament Criticism in Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary. He reports as follows : 

"My only boy, Philip Howard, has passed for entrance 
to Princeton this coming September. 

"Since my last report I have brought out a new edi- 
tion of my 'Notes on Hebrew Syntax,' and I have now in 
press a 'Hebrew Textbook for Beginners,' which will be 
ready by September next. 

"Outside the class-room, my labors have been in the 
lines of lecturing and writing articles. I have had the 
honor of speaking at all of the annual meetings of the 
■' American Bible League, and for the last five years I 
have been lecturing on Old Testament themes in many 
of the principal cities and at some of the leading Con- 
ferences and Summer Schools of the country. My lec- 
ture on 'Babylon and the Bible' and my series of articles 
on 'The Titles of Kings in Antiquity' have gained for 
me a world-wide recognition which has been very grati- 
fying. 

"Perhaps some of the boys might be interested iii the 
new department at Princeton Seminary of which I am 
at the head. Its design is to prepare men for the criti- 
cism of the Bible bj giving courses in all the languages 
in which the Scriptures were written, or which are cog- 
nate to Hebrew, or into which the Bible was translated 
before 600 A.D. — also in Egyptian. Seminary courses 
in Textual and Higher Criticism are given be- 
sides." 

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The work of this department is said to be successful, 
and it seems to meet a decided want. 

EEV. SAMUEL GEAHAM WILSON, D.D., 

Tabriz, Persia (via Berlin). 

"I have continued as a missionary, engaged chiefly in 
educational and evangelistic work among Armenians 
and Moslems. As Principal of the Memorial Training 
and Theological School, I have organized, since the last 
Eecord^ a department for Persians, attended by the sons 
of the nobility, v^hose increasing desire for education 
has brought to them liberty to pursue it. 

"I continue to be Treasurer of the Mission, have been 
its Moderator and was its delegate to General Assembly 
in 1905. I am President of the Anti-Alcoholic Society 
of Persia. I expect soon to attend a Conference on 
Missions to Moslems, to be held in Cairo, and will visit 
the Holy Land at the same time. 

"I had the notoriety of being the first person to come 
under the surgeon's knife for appendicitis in this part 
of the world. As the operation was critical and fully 
successful, it excited much curiosity among the Per- 
sians, even the Crown Prince sending repeatedly to in- 
quire as to the progress of the case. 

"I am sorry to miss the Class Eeunion, but my visit 
to America in 1905 gave me a chance to admire the new 
Princeton. I also took in the St. Louis Exposition, the 
first opportunity I have had for such a sight since we 
'boys of '76' crowded around the grand-stand at the 
Centennial. 

"During my furlough, I wrote a story for young peo- 

110 



pie, entitled, 'Mariam : A Eomance of the Persian 
Missions/ which was published as a serial and will 
shortly appear in book form. My 'Persian Life and 
Customs' has been translated into German by Countess 
Grueben, and has also been translated into Kussian. I 
have published a number of articles, as 'The Armenian 
Church and the Eussian Government,' in the North 
American Review; 'The Atoning Savior of the Shiahs,' 
in The Presbyterian and Reformed Review; 'Babism: 
A Failure,' and other articles in The Missionary Review. 

"I have never voted, but may be classed as a Demo- 
cratic Prohibitionist. 

"Children born : Annie Ehea, June 15, 1901 ; Eobert 
Graham, July 26, 1903. Children died: Esther Fos- 
ter, June 16, 1901; Andrew Wilkins, Jr., October 9, 
1902." 

A letter of later date, written on the steamship Oren- 
oque, in the Dardanelles, says : "I have had a splendid 
visit to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and parts of Turkey, 
and go back now to Persia." 

"Sam" received the degree of D.D. from the Western 
University of Pennsylvania. 

His book, "Mariam," is a tale of the Armenians in 
Persia, which, while portraying the manners and cus- 
toms, the oppressions and problems of the people of that 
land, brings out the value and need of mission work, 
its trials and successes. 

HON. JOSEPH MILLIKEN WOODS, 

Lewistown, Pennsylvania. 
"Jimmie" followed the active practice of the law up 
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to October, 1903, when the Governor of Pennsylvania 
appointed him President Judge of the Twentieth Judi- 
cial District of Pennsylvania, to fill an unexpired term. 
In November, 1904, he was nominated by the Eepub- 
lican party for the same office, and the Democrats made 
no nomination in opposition, thus electing him unani- 
mously for the full term, which expires January 1, 1915, 

"I am an elder of the Presbyterian Church and Clerk 
of the Session, also superintendent of the Sunday- 
school." He succeeded his father, who had held that 
position for fifty years. 

Children: Catharine T., graduated from Holyoke 
College; James S., graduated from Annapolis, and is 
in the Navy; Margaretta M. is at Mary Baldwin Semi- 
nary, Staunton, Va. ; William J., at Blair Hall, Blairs- 
town. New Jersey. The others at school at Lewistown, 
Pennsylvania. 

"Jimmy" says he does not know enough about the so- 
cial or moral condition of students at Princeton, "but I 
do earnestly hope that a stop will be put to the beastly 
way in which some of the graduates act, who return to 
Commencement for the purpose of disgracing them- 
selves and the college." 

WAEEEN WOODWAED. Died December 3, 1881. 
[See Eecord No. IV., page 131.] 

EEV. WILLIAM H. WOOLVEETON, 

StocMon, New Jersey. 
''Billy" writes : "I am no prophet, I am a tiller of 
the ground, agrostologist ; would I and all of us weie 

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prophets — of the Highest. Our world^s most pressing 
need is 'the open vision/ " He has written a few fugi- 
tive verses "not appearing in The Ladies' Home Journal, 
and not yet pronounced literary by our crack critic, 
'Billyh Henderson, or his coadjutor, Hamilton Wright 
Mabie. 

"I am an uncollared Cleveland-Eooseveltian Demo- 
crat.'^ He is still "fighting the Old Adam and the San 
Jose scale/' 

He has received "one lone honor — the Presidency of a 
local Burying Ground Association — which is a live or- 
ganization. Wait till you read Harrison Clarke's 'El- 
egy written in Billy Woolverton's Country Graveyard.' " 

His daughter Primrose graduated from Vassar Col- 
lege in 1906, an honor girl of her class, receiving the 
Phi Beta Kappa ; she was also Spade Orator on her Class 
Day. 

As to student conditions at Princeton he says : "Why 
the clique social clubs? Why these and not the more 
cosmopolitan fraternities? Why not a return to old- 
time solidarity and democratic simplicity? 

"Bless dear old Princeton for her happy, hopeful Tu- 
torial System, child of brightest promise, crowning glory 
of her riper years." 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

HOWAED BUS SELL BUTLEE, 

{after JojtivMry, 1907), Studio Building, corner 
Sixty-sixth Street and Lexington Avenue, Nevj 
York City. 
"Since my last report I have withdrawn from business 
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with the intention of devoting my future to art work — 
I have served as President of Carnegie Music Hall for 
nine years. I am now painting coast scenes (at present 
on the California Coast);, with an occasional portrait. 

"There is one piece of work in which I am still inter- 
ested and hope soon to see completed and to which I 
have given much time and energy for nearly four years 
— viz., the creation of Princeton Lake. The execution 
of this project was placed in my hands by the generous 
donor, Mr. Carnegie. It originated from a haphazard 
remark made to him in February, 1902, w^ithout any 
intention of asking for a lake. The seed, however, fell 
on good soil. It is alluded to here only because it makes 
the lake indirectly due to '76. The undertaking has not 
been as easy as hoped for. Thirty-odd pieces of land 
had to be secured, and the engineering involved many 
difficulties. Contracts were made for excavations and 
embankments, for building the dam, bridges at Harri- 
son and Washington Streets and for much road-building. 
I have been ably assisted by Alexander E. Gulick, '89, 
and by the Princeton Lake Committee, C. C. Cuyler, 
'79, Chairman; Wm. Allen Butler, Jr., '76, and Moses 
Taylor Pyne, '77. It is now rapidly nearing comple- 
tion, and at this writing my hope is that it will be fin- 
ished in time for our thirtieth. (See fuller account in 
the latter part of this book.) 

"(b) None. 

"(c) Still an Independent. I believe that our only 
hope in this age of corrupt machines hangs on an in- 
telligent independent vote. 

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"(e) Cannot brag of much accomplished in these ex- 
cellent lines. 

"(f) Medals for paintings at Paris, Philadelphia, At- 
lanta, Buffalo and St. Louis. 

"(g) Century Club, Lotos Club, University Club, 
Society of American Artists, National Academy of 
Design, Architectural League, New York Water-Color 
Club. 

"Howard Eussell Butler, Jr., born November 5, 1896. 
Expects to go to Princeton, class of 1917." 

JOHN G. CECIL, B.S., M.D., 

1537 Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. 

"I have practiced and taught medicine solely and con- 
tinuously since 1879. In practice I have secured a 
goodly share and enjoy a fair reputation among my 
neighbors. As a teacher I have been honored several 
times by different local medical colleges, and have al- 
ways had the attention and respect of my classes. I 
sometimes delude myself into believing that I can really 
teach medicine, but at the final examinations of my stu- 
dents grave doubt as to my ability as a teacher is re- 
flected in the horrible answers given to my questions, 
and I am no longer sure. 

"The only literary work that I indulge in is of a 
purely professional character. I generally publish five 
or six papers in medical journals yearly. 

"Politically. Born a Democrat, I voted with that 
party until Bryan came to the front as a leader. I 
couldn't stand for Billy, so I have since voted the Ee- 

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publican ticket in National politics and the Independ- 
ent in local and State governments. I am an enthusi- 
astic adherent of Eoosevelt and his ideas of doing 
things. 

"I have no time for philanthropy and charitable 
movements^, except as I have daily opportunity in the 
work of my profession. I have recently been much in- 
terested in mimicipal reform, especially in city elec- 
tions. 

"I have always been a Presbyterian, and have held the 
office of elder in the Second Presbyterian Church of 
Louisville for several years. 

"In October, 1905, I was elected Professor of the 
Principles and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical 
Medicine in the University of Louisville. 

"I am a member of National, State and local medical 
societies and of the Pendennis Club (social) in Louis- 
ville. 

"No change in marital relations since my last re- 
port. 

"Four children living. My oldest son, Stuart E., is 
now a senior in Princeton (academic) ; my youngest 
daughter, Martha B., a freshman in Wellesley College, 
Massachusetts. 

"My oldest daughter, Mary E., was married to J. Van 
Dyke Norman (a lawyer) in October, 1904. 

"I have one grandson, J. Van Dyke Norman, Jr., 
born August 39, 1905. I hope to have him graduate 
from Princeton in 1926. 

"I think the alumni could set a better example to the 
undergraduates during Commencement week. The 

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'tents' and open houses for carousing could be abol- 
ished with credit and advantage for all." 

FEANK DAYENPOET COOK. Died December, 
1887. [See Eecoed No. V., page 102.] 



JOHN AYCEIGG HEGEMAN, M.D., 
170 Broadway, New York City. 

"Tap" has no change to report, excepting that after a 
long illness his wife died, February 2, 1905. During 
the past five years the family have traveled quite exten- 
sively through this country and in Europe. 

"Tap" is a member of the Princeton and University 
Clubs of New York. During last spring he and "Slim" 
Eussell were particularly busy in connection with two 
loving-cups, whose history "Tap" gives in the latter 
part of this book. At the Class meeting held in June 
"Tap" was added to the Executive Committee, of which 
he has long been an unofficial, frequently consulted and 
highly valued member. 

EOBEET HASELL McKOY died about four years 
ago. Frequent appeals have obtained no date nor in- 
formation regarding the death. 

W. B. McKOY, 

Wilmington, North Carolina. 
No report. 

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CHAELES K. SMITH, 

business address, Menaslia, Wisconsin; residence, 
Neenah, Wisconsin. 

"Since the last Eecoed I have^, as heretofore, devoted 
myself entirely to the business of banking, manufac- 
turing, and buying and selling timber lands in the 
United States and Canada. 

"I am Trustee of two Western colleges, and a mem*ber 
of the University Club of New York City and a few 
minor clubs. 

"My boys are preparing for Princeton." 

WILLIAM PAXTON STEVENSON, 

30 Broad Street, New York City; residence, Bo- 
selle. Union County, New Jersey. 

"Business. 

"I have been a member of the Board of Foreign 
Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United 
States of America for the past nine years. Treasurer of 
Synodical Home Missions of the State of New Jersey. 

"I am a member of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Eoselle, New Jersey, a ruling elder in it and super- 
intendent of Sunday-school. 

"I am also President of the Board of Trustees of the 
Lake George, New York, Presbyterian Church. 

"Down Town Association, National Arts Club. 

"My daughter graduated at Vassar in 1904, and my 
son at Princeton in 1905. 

"Do away with the drunken orgies at class reunions, 
such as I saw at Princeton last year." 

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NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 

EEV. THOMAS CUMING BEATTIE, 

Pasadena, California. 
"For two years I have been associate pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church of Pasadena." 

CHAELES FEOOMB BEAGG. Died February 22, 
1893. [See Eecoed VI., page 111.] 

JOHN KEEFOOT BEYDEN, 

201 Times Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

"Since I left college over thirty years ago, I have led 
a strenuous business life, and I am now anxious to 
get back to the simple life, as I think I deserve a good 
long rest. 

"Since the last report (1901) I have sold out all my 
steel interests and have been devoting my time to the 
bond business and operating a number of water and 
light plants, located in different States reaching from 
Pennsylvania to the lower part of Texas. I am proud 
to say they are all successful properties, and I enjoy 
watching them grow. In the fall of 1903 we sold our 
large steel mill at South Sharon, Pennsylvania, to the 
United States Steel Company, and I was thus relieved 
of a great amount of work and responsibility. I was 
very proud of our mills, as they were the second largest 
steel mills in the United States, outside of the great 
Trust — and I was one of the original builders of them. 
We employed over 8,000 men, made over 1,200 tons of 
finished steel per day, and on an average 3,500 kegs of 

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steel nails per day. We also built a town with a popu- 
lation of 10,000 people and paved the streets, put in 
water and light plants and good sewers, and, in fact, 
made it an up-to-date little city. All this was com- 
pleted in about four years. 

"In politics I have always been a Eepublican, believ- 
ing that it is better to keep the mills running than the 
soup houses^ to build up, not tear down, and as our be- 
loved President says, 'Give every man a square deal.' 

"I take great pleasure in doing charitable work, and 
always try to help those who are unfortunate and 
worthy, and I stand for reform at all times. 

"I am a member of the Episcopal Church, and have 
been a vestryman for over twenty years. My good wife 
looks after the most of our church work and nothing 
in this line is neglected." 

Easter Sunday, 1906, Jack gave to St. John's Episco- 
pal Church at Franklin, Pennsylvania — ^his old home — 
three beautiful art glass windows costing $1,500 each, 
in memory of his mother; he had previously given to 
the same church its fine mahogany pulpit. 

"I am a member of about seven clubs, but a very poor 
member; my home is very attractive to me, and as soon 
as my office closes I make a break for it. 

"I was married June 11, 1903, to Miss Margaret An- 
derson, and my friends say I beat all records (even the 
old patriarch Jacob's) to a standstill in courting, it hav- 
ing taken me fourteen years to win out; but 'nothing 
succeeds like success' and perseverance, and all I can 
wish to the other members of the Class of '76 is their 
married lives may always be as happy as mine. 

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"We have no children ; borrow a few from our friends 
once in a while. 

"I can suggest nothing that will improve the social or 
moral condition of the students at Princeton. I would 
think, from what I have seen of the life there, that it 
would be simply grand." 

JOHN CONGER, 

25 Broad Street, New York City. 
Jack is engaged in business as a broker, and is un- 
married. 

BERNARD CHARLES CUVELLIER died May 8, 
1905, in Oakland, Cal. Born in New Orleans, February 
20, 1854, he was "a direct descendant of Pierre Soule, 
at one time United States Senator from Louisiana and 
subsequently United States ambassador to the Court of 
Spain, commissioned by President Franklin Pierce to 
negotiate for the purchase of Cuba by the United States. 
The Soule duels with the Duke of Alva and the French 
ambassador, the Marquis de Turgot, in both of which 
Soule came out victorious, are matters of history and 
possibly account for the strain of aggressiveness in 
Cuvellier's disposition." 

His father was a lawyer in New Orleans, his mother 
was born in Louisiana, but spent her childhood and 
received her education in France. At the time of her 
son's death she was still living, being nearly seventy- 
five years of age, and that she was of great intellectual 
vigor is evidenced by the fact that two years before she 

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took up the study of Italian while living in Italy for a 
few months. 

When about fifteen years old "Cooley" entered the 
Mount Pleasant Military Academy, at Sing Sing, New 
York, and was there prepared for Princeton. Early in 
his college course, his father having suffered reverses in 
business, "Cooley" left for home, and, not desiring to 
follow the law, entered journalism, in which he was de- 
cidedly successful. In 1874 his father died, and after 
attending to the settling of the estate, Cuvellier went to 
Florida, engaged in farming and again in journalism, 
and June 5, 1876, he was married to Marie Antonia 
Toffiez, of Louisiana. The next year, after an attack of 
yellow fever, his mother urging him to join her in Cali- 
fornia, he took his family in December to San Fran- 
cisco, and secured a position in the Quartermaster's De- 
partment, U.S.A., besides doing some reportorial work. 

For more than two years Cuvellier served the Gov- 
ernment, and left an enviable record for ability, faith- 
fulness, and courage in his dealings with, and final over- 
throw of, a clique of dishonest contractors, when in 
February, 1882, he entered the employ of James de 
Fremery & Co. With them he remained for twenty-two 
years, leaving to become Vice-President of the house 
of A. Vignier & Co. 

Commercial affairs alone could not absorb all of Cu- 
vellier's time and attention, and soon after he had gone 
into business he began to direct his thoughts to politics, 
particularly to municipal affairs in Oakland, where he 
had his home, and he continued his active interest as 
long as he lived, striving especially, and with consider- 

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able success^ for the demolition of boss rule, honesty and 
economy in the administration of the government, im- 
proved educational facilities, and, within carefully cir- 
cvimscribed limits, the municipal ownership of public 
utilities. 

In 1897 Cuvellier was persuaded to accept a nomina- 
tion for Councilman-at-large, and he was elected. After 
serving his term of two years he was re-elected in 1899, 
and again in 1901 and 1903 by steadily increasing ma- 
jorities, in the last two elections receiving the highest 
number of votes cast for any nominee. He declined to 
run for higher office. Cuvellier's oldest son, Eene, was 
married April 14, 1903, to Florence Eay, one child, 
Carmelita Florence, blessing their union, but living only 
nineteen months. 

Mrs. Cuvellier died July 6, 1904, her health having 
been impaired by a series of accidents, the most serious 
of which was a severely dislocated hip, induced by a fall, 
which medical skill seemed powerless to help. After the 
death of his wife Cuvellier was never very well, and for 
a time suffered from nervous prostration. Grief and 
failing strength seemed to prey upon his mind, and May 
8, 1905, undoubtedly in a fit of mental aberration, he 
went to the roof of a high building and with a revolver 
put an end to the struggle. 

In 1901 Cuvellier came east to attend the Eeunion, 
his first visit to Princeton since 1873. His enjoyment 
was of the keenest, and his daughter writes that this 
trip "was one of the happiest times in his life, and 
he always said that if possible he would certainly go 
again to the next one.'^ For many years Cuvellier was 

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a member of the Episcopal Church; latterly his leaning 
seems to have been more towards Unitarianism. 

H. L. H. 
AUGUSTUS H. DELLICKEE, 
Hackettstown, New Jersey. 
No report. Numerous appeals remain unanswered. 
We hear that "Gus" is now engaged in civil engineering 
more than in the practice of his profession, the law. 

JAMES SEAES DICKEESON. Died February 26, 
1876. [See Eecokd No. IV., page 141.] 

E. S. ELY, 

No report. Nothing knov^n regarding him. 

EEV. CHAELES PAGE EMEESON. Died January 
19, 1887. [See Eecoed No. V., page 111.] 

CECIL C. FULTON, 

Dover, Delaware. 

Fulton writes that there is no change of importance 
to report, but sends some facts concerning his children, 
as follows : 

"Edith, the eldest, took a course at Friends' Central 
School, Philadelphia, afterwards graduated from the 
Library School of Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, and 
now has a position in the University of Pennsylvania 
library; Cecil C, Jr., graduated in June, 1906, from 
Delaware College; James A. is at Mt. Hermon Boys' 
School, and after his preparatory course expects to go 
to Princeton." 

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WILLIAM W. GEEEN, 

120 Broadway, New Yorh City; residence, Engle- 

wood. New Jersey. 
No report. He graduated from Yale in the class of 
1878, and is a lawyer, with offices in the Equitable 
Building. He is a member of the University, New 
York, and Manhattan Clubs. 

EDWAED P. HOLDER, 

Mutual Life Insurance Company, New Yorh City; 
residence, Madison, New Jersey. 

"1 enclose a tardy reply to your subpoena. You know, 
in these days of investigation we have to take the sub- 
poenas in order. 

"I have to report no change in politics, religion, or 
business. 

"In religious work my offices are : elder in the Pres- 
byterian Church, superintendent of the Sunday-school, 
Secretary of the State Executive Committee of the 
Young Men's Christian Association of Kew Jersey. My 
only public office is that of President of The Madison 
Public Library. 

"Children : Margaretta Webb, Vassar, 1903 ; Eleanor 
Sanford, Barnard, 1906 ; Edward Packard, Jr., Prince- 
ton, 1906; Elizabeth Cebra, Vassar, 1909. 

"I am glad that the Preceptorial System has been in- 
troduced. My son's experience would indicate that it 
will prove stimulating and helpful. I wish he might 
have had the benefit of it earlier." 

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HAERY BACKUS KAUFMAN. Died December 27, 
1883. [See Eecoed No. IV., page 147.] 

ALLEN TAYLOE KYLE. Died April 5, 1889. [See 
Record No. V., page 113.] 

EEV. WASHINGTON E. LAIED, Ph.D., 

West Chester, Pennsylvania. 
He is pastor of the large and flourishing First Pres- 
byterian Church of West Chester, where he has been 
located for fourteen years, and "finds the work very 
pleasant and his people exceedingly kind." He has re- 
ceived a diploma and degree for a post-graduate course 
in philosophy from Gale College, Wisconsin. Also has 
been President of the Pennsylvania Sabbath-school As- 
sembly for ten years; and is Chairman of the Presby- 
terial Committee on Evangelistic Work. He says: 
"Our Presbytery has its own evangelist working with 
wonderful results." He has published pamphlets on 
religious subjects. Laird was a commissioner to the 
General Assembly last May. 

M. P. LEAS ON, 

Kittanning, Pennsylvania. 
No report. A year ago he wrote : "I believe there is 
nothing new in my life. I am still engaged in the prac- 
tice of law, and find it agreeable and much easier than 
it was twenty-five years ago." 

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JOHN G. LYON, 

805 Keystone Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

"I am now living in Pittsburgh, my native city, hav- 
ing returned here in 1905, and hope to spend the rest 
of my days here. My home address is 5711 Elgin Ave- 
nue, and my business address as above. 

"In my various wanderings I have never found any 
better place to live in than Pittsburgh. I am engaged 
in the paint business, making paint from ^eef blood. 
I suppose I can't tell you what a great paint it is, as I 
might be suspected of trying to work an 'ad' m on the 

Eecokd. . . „ 

"There have been no deaths nor marriages m my tam- 
ily since I last wrote you. Two of my boys, aged 23 
and 18, are each about five inches taUer than the old 
man,' and the third, aged 14, promises to keep up with 

the others. 

"The oldest boy is in business, and the next one has 
just been graduated from Mercersburg Academy." _ 

"Jai" has apparently joined the movement for simpli- 
fied spelling, for he drops the final letter from the name 
of his native city. 

JOHN G. MACKY, o.-7 ^r t.- 

Room 207, U20 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania; residence. Media, Pennsylvania ^ 

John is private secretary to Charles 0. Baird, at the 

above office address. In politics he is an Independent 

Eepublican. Is ruling elder in the Presbyterian 

Church at Media, Pennsylvania, superintendent ol the 

Sabbath-school and also President of the Delaware 

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County (Pennsylvania) Sabbath-school Association. He 
is a member of the Lincoln Club, Media. 

His children were educated at preparatory schools, 
but none entered college, and none are married. 

He thinks the subject of improving the condition of 
Princeton students too big a one for him to tackle. 

HAEOLD MANN. Died July 31, 1889. [See Eec- 

OED No. v., page 117.] 

'/ 
LIEUT.-COL. HAMILTON MAEKLEY. Died April 

4, 1900. [See Eecord No. VII., page 144.] 

LINCOLN WOOD MAESTON, JE. Died November 
16, 1873. [See Eecord No. IV., page 153.] 

JOHN MILLS, JE. 

No report. 

CHAELES TALBOT MITCHELL. Died September 
13, 1887. [See Eecoed No. VI., page 132.] 

DAVID JAY MUEPHEy, JE. Died July 4, 1880. 
[See Eecord No. IV., page 157.] 

HENEY DUNCAN OLIPHANT, 

Trenton, New Jersey. 
"I was born at Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsyl- 
vania, June 6, 1855, the fourth son of the late General 
S. Duncan Oliphant, who died on October 23, 1904, 
after having served thirty-four years as Clerk of the 

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United States Circuit Court for New Jersey. I have 
succeeded him in that office. In 1867 we moved to 
Princeton. 

''I left Princeton to take a position as Clerk in the 
United States Circuit Court in the spring of 1875, 
which I occupied until October 18, 1880, when I was 
appointed Deputy Clerk of the said court, an office I 
filled until I was promoted to the clerkship of the court, 
by order dated October 39, 1904, by United States Cir- 
cuit Court Judges Acheson, Dallas and Gray, taking the 
oath of office November 1, 1904. 

"I was appointed a Standing Examiner of the Court 
June 15, 1897, and have been prominently before the 
greatest lawyers of the country, notably in the famous 
shipbuilding case. 

"I am an elder and trustee of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Trenton, and a member of the Masonic 
order, belonging to Loyal Lodge, No. 181, and of the 
Chapter. 

"My son Alfred Dayton is now taking a special course 
at Lawrenceville in order to enter the classical course 
at Princeton next fall, and Duncan is preparing for 
business at the Chestnut Hill Academy, Chestnut Hill, 
Pennsylvania." 

WILLIAM PEAESON, 

Uarrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

He is Prothonotary of the Supreme and Circuit 

Courts, as last reported. In politics he is a Eepublican. 

He is a member of the Country Club of Harrisburg, 

Dauphin County Bar Association, State Bar Associ- 

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ation of Pennsylvania, and the Historical Soeietvof 
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He is not marris, 

HON. ANDEEW PEICE, 

Thibodeaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. 
No report, though appealed to several times. 

MAETIN EALPH, 

Jf-l East Seventieth Street, New YorTc CitypQsi- 
dence, Jf-S Flushing Avenue, Jamaica, Long Mdnd, 
New Yorh. 

"1 have spent nearly ten years past inviting th^©n- 
eral public to improve their opportunities, and eotdib- 
ute their money to hospital charities. During thad:itae 
have been an Assistant Secretary with the PresbTtaan 
Hospital, jSTew York City. 

"As a member of the rank and file, I would clafaiiy- 
self as an independent Eepublican, and a stron ad- 
mirer of 'Teddy as President. 

"I hold membership in the Presbyterian Cnrch, 
while temporarily affiliating with the Dutch Chuic: and 
interested in it as a Sunday-school teacher. 

"Children: John Joseph, born February 28,-385; 
Henry William, born March 4, 1886; Edward imiel, 
born November 26, 1900; Martin Nathanie] born 
February 7, 1904. 

"John J. completed the freshman year at Cori^i Col- 
lege in June, 1904, in the Mechanical Engisering 
Course. 

"Henry W. completed sophomore year at Primron in 
June, 1904." 

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Hexey B. Coenwall, E.M., Ph.D. 



JOHN P. EOBEETS, 

Columbus, Wisconsin, or Post-office Box 182, Cam^ 
bria, Wisconsin. 

"I have not much new to report. For the greater part 
of the year my work is tuning, repairing and adjust- 
ing musical instruments, and along with that I fre- 
quently run half a dozen side-shows, such as photograph- 
ing (views, generally), printing, repairing of clocks, 
watches, sewing-machines, etc. 

"I do not have time for much literary work, yet send 
an occasional article to the Welsh papers and the home 
English papers. In politics I do little, though much 
interested, for since 1886 I have been a .925 pure Pro- 
hibitionist, the balance being fond remembrance of the 
Eepublican party. 

"At present I am connected with the Congregational 
Church, though circumstances may before long bend my 
thoughts to another, 

"I am not married; reasons? Ask her. 

"I would like to attend the reunion and see Prince- 
ton. Please tell the Class that I send to all my best re- 
gards and good wishes." 

JAMES A. EOBINSOIT, 

60Jf Monongahela Banlc Building, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania. 
Ko report, in spite of numerous appeals. 

JOSEPH M. EOSEBEEEY, 
Belvidere, New Jersey. 
"I have been very busy, too busy to attend the Ee- 
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"union of '76 ; I know well how pleasant a social contact 
with the fellows of '76 would have been, and I often 
regret that I had not gone to have a day's good time 
with the boys. 

"I am practicing law and looking after my business 
affairs, and I take all the time I can spare in roaming 
over my woodlands. There is nothing more enjoyable 
than this nor more fraught with healthful gain. I have 
splendid health without ache or pain, with hair un- 
mixed with gray and eyes undimmed. 

"I am teaching an expected Princetonian athletics, 
and the repeated query is, Tapa, how much longer do 
I have to stay?' 

"I have one child, a boy nine years old; my wife is 
living, and we have no complaint and are reasonably 
happy, as far as the bearers of human ills can be. I 
am now weighed down with that gloomy retrospection 
of a lost opportunity in meeting my old chums of '76. 
I think of the old fellows and wonder how I could have 
stayed away; I suppose it was due, in part, to the fact 
that I visited Princeton with my brother, a graduate, 
last summer. 

"As I write this a spirit of recklessness longs for one 
of those old-time, won't-go-home-till-morning escapades. 
I am happy in my domestic affairs, and take the world's 
bumps with a rubber's reaction." 

"Joe" says nothing of his political views, but we hear 
he became infected with Bryanism on the appearance 
of that silver-tongued orator, and has since aligned him- 
self with the Democratic party. 

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THOMAS EANDOLPH SHEETS, 

157 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 
No report. The Secretary called at the address given 
by Sheets ten years ago, but could get no trace of "Ean- 
nie." The Chicago Directory has "Thos. E. Sheets, 157 
Mich. Av.," and a letter sent there has not been re- 
turned. 



OSCAE A. SLOAN, 

Monticello, Florida. 

No report. The postmaster writes : "Oscar A. Sloan 
is a resident of Monticello, Florida. Farming is his 
present occupation. He is a very nice gentleman and 
has a very interesting family." 

Notice the difference between this postmaster and the 
one who receives Cuniugham's mail. Query: Has this 
one proved recreant to his oath of office? 

W. McB. SMITH, 

Jfl-JfS Gay Building, St. Louis, Missouri. 

"In April, 1903, I disposed of my business in Belton, 
Texas, and moved to St. Louis, investing in the manu- 
facturing business with the Macgowan & Finigan Foun- 
dry & Machine Co., and was elected Secretary of the 
Company. I am doing well and have had no cause to 
regret the move. 

"I am a member of the Brank Memorial Presbyterian 
Church, South, and was elected to the eldership last 
fall. Eockwell G. Brank, a graduate from the Prince- 
ton Seminary in May last, is our pastor, I am actively 

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engaged in the Sunday-school work of the cnurch, and 
take great pleasure in it. What is your life worth to 
the world unless some good has been accomplished bj 
your having lived in it? 

"I have not had any honors thrust upon me, and do 
not belong to any clubs, not even the Princeton Club of 
the city. I am devoting eight or nine hours per day to 
my business, and the rest of my time is devoted to my 
family and church work. 

"Children — same as last report. No marriages and I 
am thankful to say no deaths in my household. 

"My oldest son, Lygon Corbin, graduated from Austin 
College, Sherman, Texas, in June, 1903. His diploma 
would have admitted him to the senior class, Princeton, 
where he intended to go, but a good position was offered 
him in the Commonwealth Trust Company, of this city, 
and he accepted it, and is with them. His promotion 
has been rapid, and he is now holding a splendid posi- 
tion. My other son, Oliver Carey, graduated from the 
same college in June, 1905. He is now with W. H. 
Markham & Co., fire insurance, of this city, and doing 
well. Both boys took great interest in athletics, and 
even made quite a reputation in Texas in the baseball 
field. Each left the college as Captain of the baseball 
and football teams." 

"Macbeth" was seriously ill last spring, but has since 
recovered. He writes: "The latch-string hangs out- 
side day or night to any '76 men. I saw Major Eichard 
W. Johnson often while he was in the city in charge 
of the Army Medical Exhibit at the Fair. I recognized 
him at once, after twenty-seven years of separation. He 

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was sitting behind me at church when I first saw him, 
and I came near shouting, I was so glad to see 
him." 

JOEDAN STOKES, 

Bass Block, Nashville, Tennessee. 

"Jerry" is engaged in the practice of his profession, 
the law, with his son, Jordan, Jr., and writes that he 
has closely followed that work and has not sought dis- 
tinction in outside fields. In politics he is independent, 
voting the Eepublican ticket in National affairs, in re- 
cent years, and in State affairs generally voting the 
Democratic ticket. He is a member of the M. E. 
Church, South, and it has often honored him with high 
and responsible positions. 

He has four living children, three of whom are mar- 
ried ; and his youngest, a son, is now attending Vander- 
bilt University, but will enter Princeton next year. 

He is "Grandpa" five times, as follows : 

Henry Clinton Parrent, August 6, 1902; Marie Par- 
rent, December 4, 1903; Prances Stokes, February 19, 
1904; Mary Lindsey, April 12, 1905; Jordan Stokes, 
third, December 4, 1905. 

He is a member of the University and the Golf and 
Country Clubs of Nashville, and looks forward to the 
Eeunion as "u^hen in childhood I counted the days and 
hours until Christmas." 

JONATHAN E. SWEET. Died June 3, 1893. [See 
Eecord No. VII., page 153.] 

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BEVERLEY WAENER, D.D., LL.D., 

2115 Chestnut Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

"I am still rector of Trinity Church, although I re- 
signed in December, 1904, on the invitation of St. Ste- 
phen's, Philadelphia, where I went and remained a short 
time. They were most kind and generous, but I found 
I was too wedded to the South, and had become too 
much identified with the community to leave here, so I 
am at the old stand." 

When the call to Philadelphia became known pub- 
licly The New Orleans Picayune said : "Dr. Warner is 
one of the most scholarly, erudite and progressive minis- 
ters in this city. When he came to Trinity Parish from 
Bridgeport, in 1893, he at once took a place as a citizen 
of New Orleans, ready and willing and fully compe- 
tent to take hold of and to lead to successful conclusion 
the various public questions which are in the life of a 
great city. He identified himself with every movement, 
whether religious, charitable, social, or ethical that was 
worthy of his co-operation and support, and when once 
interested, he brought into play his resourceful and ver- 
satile endowment of heart, mind and hand, which sel- 
dom failed to crown with success any undertaking in 
which he was one of the factors. * * * 

"In the religious life of New Orleans Dr. Warner 
occupies a prominent position. He is President of the 
Standing Committee, which is the Executive Commit- 
tee of the diocese. He is Examining Chaplain to the 
bishop, Vice-President and Chaplain of the Children's 
Home, and Deputy General to the Convention. * * * 

"Dr. Warner is the founder of the Trinity Woodyard 

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and Lodging-house, and the Dispensary for Food and 
Clothing. The principle of both of these organizations 
is to provide work for people, men and women out of 
employment, and pay them in clothing and board and 
lodging. This was the first establishment of this kind 
in the South under a church jurisdiction. Dr. Warner 
was also founder and President of Kingsley House, now 
Kingsley House Settlement Association, under the con- 
trol of a Board of Directors, whose last achievement 
was the opening, this day, of a public playground, the 
first of its kind in the South." 

Immediately prominent citizens, including the forev 
most bankers, merchants and professional men, among 
whom were many of the faith of Israel, signed a peti- 
tion, begging him to remain as rector of Trinity. Sev- 
eral rabbis assured Dr. Warner that if his contemplated 
change was a matter of money, they would see that all 
financial considerations were satisfactorily settled. 

"Three books am I guilty of since last report: 'The 
Young Woman in Modern Life,' ''The Young Man in 
Modern Life,' and 'Famous Introductions to Shakes- 
peare's Plays,' all published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New 
York." Bev. has also written "The Facts and 
the Faith," and "English History in Shakespeare's 
Plays." 

"I am President of the Kingsley House Social Settle- 
ment in this city, and frequently speak and write at and 
for such work here and elsevi^here. 

"Tulane University gave me an LL.D. in March, 
1906, and the University of Chicago made me a Uni- 
versity preacher the same year. 

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"I am President of the Eound Table Club, New Or- 
leans. 

"No change in the children, except that Jack, the 
youngest, has just entered Sewanee Grrammar School, 
and in passing through Chattanooga 'Yap' gave him his 
stamp of approval. 

"Do give my love to the old fellows. Those I have 
seen seem to be holding their own and doing good ser- 
vice to their kind. Stokes, Denny and I dined together 
at the former's house last year and recalled old days. 
Jack Taylor, B. Henry and old Van Lennep were very 
cordial in welcoming me to Philadelphia, and last week 
'Yap' Walker and I sat up late to recall the old days 
and the old times. It was good to see them, and I wish 
I might be able to get to the Eeunion." 

In the summer of 1897, it may be recalled, New Or- 
leans was visited by yellow fever. Bev. was north at 
the time, taking his vacation, but he hurried home to 
the aid of those in need, and while visiting the sick and 
burying the dead he was stricken with the disease. When 
yellow fever again appeared, in the summer of 1905, 
Bev. again hastened south and offered his services. The 
health officers were working on the theory that the mos- 
quito carried the infection, and efforts were made to 
eradicate the insect, organizations in each ward where 
the disease had not yet become prevalent looking after 
their own section. Bev. was made General Superin- 
tendent of the Auxiliary Ward organizations, and to the 
work of purging the city of the stegomyia mosquito he 
gave himself without stint. The result of the cam- 
paign is well known. 

138 



On Christmas Day, 1905, a delegation of representa- 
tive Jewish citizens waited upon Dr. Warner and pre- 
sented to him, in recognition of his services, a hand- 
some set of dining-room furniture of English oak, 
carved with fruits and flowers and gargoyle heads, also 
a chandelier and a large rug. During his presentation 
speech, Mr. Isadore Newman said : "You are not 
merely a minister of the Episcopal Church in this city, 
you are a minister of the whole community, a man who 
works for the whole city irrespective of faith." 

April 8, 1906, a reception was tendered Bev. in the 
St. Charles Hotel, when his friends made him the re- 
cepient of a silver set of seventy-two pieces in testimony 
of the estimation in which he is held. One of the speak- 
ers, Eabbi Leucht, remarked that Dr. Warner was not 
simply a stegomyia killer, he was a destroyer of walls; 
he had laid low many a partition that had separated 
man from man, and there was no wall too high for him 
to look over and to recognize his friend, the man on 
the other side. 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

ISAAC WELLING COOLEY, 

91Jf Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
"I am at present, and have been for some years, in 
the insurance business with the Alta Friendly Society. 
"For a number of years I was not in very good health, 
but at present, and for a few years past, I have been 
remarkably well. I am not at present engaged in, or 
particularly interested in, anything excepting the in- 

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surance business. I have never married. I still live 
in West Philadelphia, 3939 Powelton Avenue." 

HON. EOLLA WELLS, 

Mayor's O^ce, 8t. Louis, Missouri. 

His Honor the Mayor writes from his summer home 
at Wignetonsing, Michigan, as follows : 

"Not being an alumnus, I feel that I have no place 
in the Class Eecord^ and therefore hesitate to partici- 
pate even to the extent of furnishing data concerning 
myself. 

"My life has been a happy one, some also say suc- 
cessful. 

"I have a wife and five children, two boys and three 
girls, and two grandchildren, a boy and a girl. My 
eldest son is a graduate of old Princeton, my second is 
now^ in his senior year. I have, therefore, I believe, 
done well by the college in this particular. 

"My public career has principally consisted of one 
four-year term as Mayor of the city of St. Louis, and 
I have been honored with re-election to a second term, 
which I am now serving. 

"Owing to an important bond election at that time, 
I was unable to attend the Eeunion." 



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MARRIAGES 

GRADUATE MEMBERS 

Anness — Ida L. Garrison, October 11, 1882 

Ball— Ida M. Perkins, October 13, 1881 

Barhley — Mary E. Conwell, May 27, 1879 

Beach — Eleanor T. Orhison, August 10, 1882 

ionner — Kate Helena Griifith, October 20, 1880 
1 — Brown, H.— Minnie Toland Glassell, December 13, 1882 

Brown, J. P. — Minnie Evans Wheeler, November 7, 1888 
— 'Brown, 0. B. — Jeannette Geihart, June 12, 1883 
-^Butler, W. A., Jr. — Louise Terry Collins, October 1, 1884 

Chaffee — Laura C. Putnam, May 14, 1879 

Chamlers—mary F. Bliss, May 20, 1880; Cornelia P. Wil- 
liams, May 7, 1884 

Chapin — ^Florence Adelaide Johnson, April 5, 1888 

Clarice — Mary Frances Barnes, January 1, 1885 

Conger, A. B. — *Mary Stockton, June 8, 1880 

Coursen — Sophie Chester Johns, January 12, 1886 

Cowan — Julia Nutting, November 20, 1878 
^Cowart — Florence Shepherd, April 30, 1891 
-^Davis — Harriet W. Riddle, January 17, 1882 

Denny — Lucy Chase Chapman, July 5, 1881 

Dresser — Genevieve Tyler, November 22, 1881 

Duffield— Madge Cecil Wall, November 21, 1882 

Edwards — Mary Alice Shirk, January 1, 1880 
■<Elliott — Corinne Bruce Vickers, June 3, 1903 

Evans — Lizzie R. Richards, November 1, 1882 

*Finley—Ida May Davis, July 9, 1889 

Fulton. A. A.— Florence Wishard, July 26, 1883 

Gillespie— E. C. Calloway, September 20, 1880 

*Greene, S. B. — Jennie Lee Niven, November 20, 1889; Eliza- 
beth Bull 

*Deceased 

141 



^^Greene, W. B., Jr. — Katherine Porter Greene, September 2, 
1880 
* Gregory — * Harriet La Fetra Moore, April 30, 1884 ; Florence 

Adelaide Lindsley, November 5, 1895 
*Eamilton, H. P. — Fannie C. Snow, January 20, 1887 
Hamilton, R. W. — Martha Lilian Donaldson, June 22, 1882 

Harrison — Frances H. Tyrell, July 11, 1888 

— Henderson — Annie L. Carter, April 2, 1880 ; Julia F. Wall, 

May 9, 1904 
—-^ Henry — * Bessie McCorkle, August, 1881; Jane Irwin Robeson. 
Jenkins — Susie M. Scruggs, May 14, 1882 
■ Johnson, Rd. W. — Helen Woodburn McGregor, June 1, 1893 
^^ohnson, Robt. W. — Julia Watts Hall Brock, October 1, 1879 
Z-^ones, D. B.—*Nora L. Bayley, June 11, 1879 
„^„£aufman, W. T. — Grace Brockway, January 21, 1880 
Knox — Harriet L. Crozier, May 26, 1880 
Liston — * Clara Robinson, June 28, 1882 ; Isabel Lapsley, June 

9, 1896 
Long — Lizzie B. Marple, June 23, 1876 
Lott — *Eliza Farless Wager, September 17, 1885 
Lyon, E. D. — Mrs. Kate Emma Pinckney, June 23, 1906 
Lytic— Mary E. Arnold, October 12, 1881 
Mann, J. M. — Fannie B. Carter, April 18, 1883 ./ 
^f«-Markoe — Madeline Shelton, March 9, 1882 
*Marquand — Alice Ogsten, June 8, 1881 
*Martin — Clara A. Evans, July 2, 1878 
McKittrick — Julia Humphrey Seward, October 3, 1889 
Milburn — 'Nannie Redin Woodward, December 2, 1880 
Miller — *Emma S. Drouillard, October 17, 1878; Lena 8. 
Harris, March 7, 1894 
>^Noble—Mary Hays, April 14, 1881 
Orita — Satoko Ononye, August 1, 1878 
Parker— Mary Hunt Bedle, April 30, 1890 
^^Patterson — Elizabeth Stewart Johnston, November 28, 1882 
Perrine — Elizabeth Wyckoff Conover, November 29, 1900 
*Plumley — Mrs. Mary S. {nee Cann) Trask, December 25, 

1876 
Pugh — *Nettie S. Frisbie, November 16, 1880; Mary F. Doyle, 
September 6, 1902 



♦Deceased 

142 



Rico — Rilla Hays, June 1, 1882 
^t^Riker — Mallie Blair Snyder, October 15, 1891 
Riley— Beta M. Hard, August 27, 1878 
Rudy — Cecilia Baer, August 25, 1883 
*Schenck — *Minnie P. Hollister, August 30, 1881 ; Mary A. 

Smith, February 26, 1884 
Scudder — H. Helen Damarin, November 20, 1879 
Shoemaker — Emma J. Coulter, January 1, 1878 
Smith, F. B.—*Charlotte P. Dennis, October 29, 1879; Anne 

Grahame Dennis, September 21, 1892 
*Smith, F. S.— Henrietta F. Horrie, March 24, 1885 
Smith, J. A. L. — Mary Louisa Johnson, August 26, 1879 
^fo^tarr — Alice Dunning, June 8, 1898 

Stevenson, A. R. — Mary Margaret Kennedy, April 11, 1882 
Stewart — *Mary Adeline Thompson, June 18, 1879 
Symmes — Hattie M. Sutphen, May 9, 1882 
Taylor — Emily Heyward Drayton, October 15, 1879 
Todd, H. A.— Marian Oilman, July 30, 1891 
Todd, R. N.—Tryphena Phelps, December 27, 1892 
*Turnure — Elisabeth Harrison, May 20, 1890 
Van Dike — Henrietta Spaulding Murray, December 27, 1888 
.._^FoM Lennep — Clara Reeves Hart, April 28, 1886 
Walker, L. G. — Adele Branham, September 12, 1883 
Wardlaw—Mary Hoge, July 29, 1880 

Weart— Clara S. Pendexter, April 17, 1888 

White— *Mary E. Lamb, September 22, 1882 
Whittlesey — Lili<in Bell, April 30, 1885 
Wilson, R. D. — Ella Conway Howard, June 25, 1889 
Wilson, S. G. — Annie Dwight Rhea, September 16, 1886 
'"'-Woods — Sarah Elizabeth Johnson, June 2, 1881 

Woolverton — Minnie Primrose Dickinson, May 6, 1884 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

utler, H. R. — Virginia Hays, November 25, 1890 
Cecil — Elizabeth Robinson, November 28, 1882 
*Cook—Mary Garretson, November 10, 1884 
JHegeman — *Bessie Conrad Moyer, June 5, 1879 
*McKoy, R. H.— Maria A. Brown, May 21, 1879 

*Deeeased 

143 



McKoy, W. B. — Katherine Bacon, December 13, 1886 
.gi^^^^SmUh, C. B. — *Jennie W. Mathewson, October 2, 1889; Isabel 
Bacon Rogers, June 6, 1900 
Stevenson, W. P. — Marianne W. Woods, September 29, 1881 

NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 

Beattie—Ruhy Miller, July 28, 1891 
t»:u«;Bryden — Margaret Anderson, June 11, 1902 
*CuvelUer — Mary Antonia Toifiz, July 5, 1876 

Dellicker , , — , 1879 

Ely — Emma D. Palmer, May 27, 1880 

Pulton, G. C.~Anna W. Meredith, October 13, 1881 

Greene, W. W. — Jessica R. Thayer, , — , 

Holden^Ella C. Well, March 5, 1879 

* Kaufman, H. B. — Minnie L. Meyers, June — , 1882 

*Eyle—Eligal)eth B. Mitchell, March 29, 1883 

Laird — Fannie E. Hadfield, August 23, 1877 

Leason — *Hannah R. Reynolds, June 29, 1880 

Lyon, J. G. — Adelina G. Langworthy, November 22, 1882 

MacJcy — Lizzie E. Hoopes, September 4, 1878 

*Mann, H.— Harriett D. Stellwagon, April 30, 1878 

Mills , , — , 

*Murphey — Annie Sharp, — — , 1880 

Oliphant — Elizaheth Vandeveer Dayton, October 20, 1886 
„„^Price — Anna Margaret Gay, June 26, 1879 
Balph — Jane M. A. Pohlmann, April 18, 1884 
Robinson, J. A. — Sarah E. Loane, April 29, 1891 
Roseherry — Mary Winter White-, August 15, 1891 

Sheets , , 

Sloan — Lizzie Sloan, December 1, 1886 

Smith, W. McB. — Fannie B. GorUn, January 1, 1877 

Stokes — Mary Whitworth, October 11, 1877 

*Sweet—Glara Baggott, June 16, 1887 

Warner — Alice Madeleine Stoughton, June 1, 1880 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 
Wells — Jennie Howard Parker, October 2, 1878 

♦Deceased 

144 



BIETHS 



Anness 

Marjorie Belle, September 20, 1883 

Edna JLouise, July 28, 1885 

Irving Garrison, June 2, 1887 
Ball 

*Jean Ross, July 11, 1882 
*Bea trice, January Hi, 1884 

Frances Ethel, May 12, 1886 

Hannah Dorothy, December 20, 1888 
Barhley 

Earl Conwell, April 30, 1880 

Marjorie Agnes, March 15, 1882 

Mary Gladys, June 7, 1889 
Beach 

Mary Hollingsworth Morris, June 17, 1885 

Nancy Woodbridge, March 14, 1887 

Eleanor Elliott, April 23, 1891 
Bonner 

Griffith, November 4, 1885 

Courtlandt, June 5, 1887; *June 3, 1889 

Hampton, June 30, 1890 

Kenneth, March 14, 1892 

Kate d'Auterroches, November 22, 1895 
Brown. H. 

Adelaide J., February 8, 1885 

Lucie Toland, October 7, 1887 

Eleanor Glassell, October 10, 1889 ; * July 5, 1906 

Harrington, Jr., February 4, 1894 

Andrew Glassell, April 16, 1896 
Brown, J. P. 

Dorothy, September 13, 1889 

Wendell Wheeler, June 30, 1892 

Margaret, October 20, 1893 

Eleanor Beattie, July 6, 1901 

♦Deceased 

145 



Butler, W. A., Jr. 

William Allen, 3d, January 7, 1886 

Lyman Collins, January 2, 1888 

Charles Terry Collins, September 20, 1889 

Lydia Coit, November 19, 1891 

Louise Tracy, October 23, 1894 
CJiaffee 

Harold Putnam, April 25, 1880 

Eleanor Billings, November 17, 1881 

James Foster, June 9. 1883 

Arthur Billings, Jr., January 2, 1885 

Margaret Caroline, February 6, 1887 

Mary Ellen, August 29, 1889 ; *August, 1890 

Lawrence Eric, October 25, 1891 
Chambers 

Ralph Gordon, February 22, 1885 ; *January 28, 1888 

Talcot Williams, October 19, 1886; *April 9, 1902 

Kate Ethel, April 27, 1889 

Dorothea Nesbitt, May 20, 1896 
Chapin 

Helen Welles, November 24, 1884 ; *January 22, 1887 

Francis Stuart, February 3, 1888 
Clarice 

Grace Darling, March 12, 1886 

Robert Burns, August 13, 1887 

Harrison Barnes, September 10, 1890 

Paul McCosh, September 24, 1892 

Francis Palmer, November 29, 1895 
Conger, A. B. 

Mary Stockton, March 20, 1881 

Caroline Bayard, January 4, 1883 

Richard Stockton, April 19, 1886 

Arthur McCrea, October 29, 1887 

Katherine Rutgers, April 19, 1889 

John De Peyster, March 27, 1891 

Bayard Stockton, May 21, 1893 ; *September 8, 1893 

Helen Remsen, April 12, 1895 
Coursen > 

Marion, February 27, 1887 

♦Deceased 

146 



Coursen 

Gladys, July 15, 1888 

Donald Chester, July 15, 1888; *July 15, 1888 

Konald Chester, December 2, 1893 
Cowan 

Cora E., September 20, 1879 

Florence J., January 26, 1885 

Lillie, August 12, 1886; * in infancy 
Denny 

Margaret Collins, April 10, 1882 

Elizabeth Chapman, January 7, 1884 

William R., Jr., September 12, 1888 ; *March 24, 1890 

Edith Allen, December 21, 1890 

Lucy Chase, January 21, 1893 

Collins, Jr., June 10, 1899 
Dresser 

Laurence Tyler, September 11, 1882 

Genevieve, May 18, 1886 

Eloise, May 11, 1889 

Marie, December 9, 1890 

Chandler, July 3, 1896 
Duffield 

George Barry, March 1, 1884 

Elizabeth Fletcher, March 30, 1889 
Edwards 

Richard Elbert, October 8, 1880 

Milton Arthur, December 10, 1882 

Mary Alice, February 10, 1884 

Clara Ellen, July 27, 1885 

Florence Esther, June 17, 1887 
Elliott 

Clara Vickers, June 5, 1904 
Evans 

Edward Richard, March 31, 1884 

A boy ; d. in infancy 

Arthur Lewis, February 26, 1890 
*Finley 

Marietta Davis, November 28, 1891 
Fulton, A. A. 

Edith Mary, June 3, 1884 

♦Deceased 

147 



Fulton, A. A. 

Theodore Cuyler, July 20, 1886 

Harold Wishard, July 21, 1888 

Ralph Whittier, July 28, 1891 

Grace, January 23, 1893 

Horace H., March — , 1899 
Gillespie 

Annie Virginia, March 25, 1882 ; * January 17, 1886 

Kenneth, January 22, 1884 

Alexander, November 23, 1885 

Harriett Perrie, June 27, 1888 

Calloway. November 4, 1891 

Joseph j 

George Yeakle, December 6, 1893 

Eugene, September 20, 1897 
^Hamilton, H. P. 

Albert Edward, December 28, 1887 

Harold Webb, January 20, 1892 

Elizabeth, January 15, 1894 
Hamilton, R. W. 

Eben Stuart Burt, March 30, 1886 

Robert Victor, November 12, 1888 
Henderson 

Henry AVarner, h ebruary 24, 1881 

Florence Vaulx, June 30, 1883 
Henry 

Howard H. 

Caroline Mary 

Snowden 
Jenkins 

James Caldwell, Jr., May 31, 1883 

Welling Field, September 23, 1884 

Eleanor Marjorie, August 24, 1886 

Lydia Louise, October 10, 1888 

Theodore Dwight, October 16, 1890 

Mary Eunice, July 17, 1894 

Susan Lodema, November 30, 1898 

Katharine, April 1, 1901 
Johnson, Richard W. 

Richard W., Jr., April 23, 1906 

*Deceased 

- 148 



Johnson, Boht. W. 

Anna Julia, July 15, 1880 

Ella Brock, July 26, 1882 

William Fell, August 18, 1884 

Katharine Barker, October 7, 1885 

Robert W., Jr., June 3, 1891 

J. P. Brock, September 3, 1894; *September 29, 1896 
Jones, D. B. 

Gwethalyn, August 18, 1880 

Catherine, April 30, 1885 

Herbert, May 16, 1888 

Winifred, November 1, 1889 

Owen Barton, June 28, 1894 
Kaufman, W. T. 

^\^f \ April 8, 1884 
Gladys J 

Knox 

Harriet Elizabeth, May 'A, 1881 

Martha Elda, October 28, 1884 ; * July 1, 1895 

Alexander Williams, March 18, 1886 

Florence Anna, October 22, 1888 

George Crozier, March 11, 1891 

Samuel Edgar, February 22, 1892 

Helen May, December 4, 1893 

Harry Gaylord, February 22, 1895 

Esther Lydia, July 22, 1899 
Liston 

Margaret Lapsley, April 27, 1897 

Robert Todd Lapsley, December 10, 1898 

Sarah, October 6, 1900 

Mary Theresa, August 25, 1903 
Long 

Olive Pauline, December 5, 1879 

Marion Olive, September 27, 1881 

Stephen Stacy, May 29, 1884 

Joseph Jay, March 22, 1886 
Lytle 

Julia Arnold, July 15, 1882 

Sophie Ridgley, August 25, 1884 

♦Deceased 

149 



Lytle 

Florence Rebecca, December 28, 1885 

Scott Harrison, June 27, 1889 

Richard Ridgely, Jr., July — , 1891 
Mann. J. M. 

Peter Carter, February 4, 1884 

Joseph Francis, December 2, 1890 
Markoe 

Francis H., Jr., June 11, 1884 
*Marquand 

Alice Ogston 

Elizabeth L. 

Son deceased 
*Martin 

Frederick Perry, May 8, 1882 

Margaret Helen, November 12, 1888 
McKittrick 

Seward, November 21, 1890 

Marjorie, , ; ^September 3, 1893 

Milhurn 

Joseph Woodvpard, November 21, 1881 

Mary Eleanor, December 14, 1882 

John Rudisill, December 25, 1884 

Martha Page, November 23, 1887 ; *November 26, 1888 

Emily Snowden, January 10, 1890 

William Ryland, July 28, 1891 

Page, Jr., May 23, 1896 
Miller 

George Scudder, July 21, 1880 

Evelyn, October 21, 1881 

Katherine, June 10, 1886 
Nolle 

Minnie Hays, December 12, 1883 

Earl, June 10, 1886 
Orita 

Aritsune, May 16, 1879 

Aritomo, September 12, 1881 

Arihiko, December 10, 1883 

Teruko, April 1, 1886 

Ariyoshi, September 12, 1891 
*Deceased 

150 



Orita 

Arinobu, March 15, 1893 

Aritada, April 3, 1894 

Tayeko, July 6, 1899 
Parker 

Robert Craig Bedle, August 29, 1895 

Edward Gummere, January 2, 1902 
Patterson 

William Johnston, October 3, 1883 ; *January 7, 1894 

Joseph, April 12, 1885 

Robert Wilson, Jr., October 19, 1887 

Sara Stewart, June 12, 1890 
*Plumley 

Howard, November 22, 1878 

Marion Stuart, January 9, 1881 

Gardiner Spring, January 15, 1883 

Mary Sanger, October 19, 1885 

Margaret Lovell, June 11, 1890 

Sarah Goodenough, September 25, 1893 
Pugh 

Mary Louise, November 1, 1882 

Charles F., February 7, 1884 ; *March 4, 1894 

John C. L., Jr., December 7, 1886 
Rice 

Charles Herbert, December 10, 1884 

Helen, December 29, 1890 

Paul Harper, October 23, 1893 

William Hays, November 24, 1896 

Mabel, August 6, 1898 

Biker 

Gertrude, February 14, 1895 

Two girls and a boy 
Riley 

Alden K., Jr., June 22, 1879 

Albert G., December 3, 1882 

Robert H., June 23, 1886 

Rudy 

Thomas Edward, November 25, 1884 ; *Novemb€r 28, 1884 
James Hannibal, October 29, 1885 

♦Deceased 

151 



Rudy 

Susan Penelope, February 8, 1889 

Alma, November 28, 1890 
*8chenck 

Elsie Mercein, March 27, 1887 ; *August 18, 1905 

Clinton Stewart, October 14, 1888; *October 21, 1889 
Scudder 

Charles Damarin, October 21, 1883 
Shoemaker 

Loraine James, December 22, 1878 

Albert Jesse R., November 23, 1882 

Parshall Morse, January 9, 1887; *August 17, 1901 

Mary, July 18, 1888; *October 4, 1889 

Frank Lebbeus ) i -.cno 

TT, 111, V December 1, 1892 

Emma Florence | 

Smith, F. B. 

Franklin B., Jr., August 28, 1879 ; *November, 1903 

Alice McPherson, April 5, 1885 

Charlotte Patterson, November 9, 1886 

*Smith, F. S. 

Eleanor Stafford, March 28, 1886 

Gladys Walton, June 6, 1887 ; *February 22, 1889 

Mildred Walton, November 7, 1890 

Julian Tuzo, April 20, 1894 

Smith, J. A. L. 

Eleanor Patton, May 29, 1880 ; * June 28, 1893 

Allan Johnston, May 16, 1881; *August 21, 1889 

Mary Louisa, December 30, 1882 

Maud Rae, December 9, 1884 . 

Sampson Hodge MeCullough, August 20, 1880 

Ethel Wishard, February 11, 1888 

Starr 

Allen Egbert, January 19, 1902 
Katharine Eunice, March 1, 1904 

Stevenson, A. R. 

Thomas Kennedy, November 10, 1883 

Caroline Paxton, March 5, 1888 ; *November 28, 1895 

Alexander Russell, Jr., May 28, 1895 

Stuart Riddle, November 14, 1896 
♦Deceased 

152 



Stewart 

Helen, March 21, 1880 

Harris Bates, May 26, 1882 

George Black Jr., November 6, 1884 

Weir, December 14, 1893 
Taylor 

Edith, August 11, 1880 

Percival Drayton, September 8, 1882 

Mabel Hayward, November 10, 1884 
Todd, H. A. 

Eliza Oilman, April 22, 1892 

Martha Clover, March 5, 1894 

Henry Wallingford, August 2, 1897 

Paul Wallingford, November 15, 1899 
Todd. R. N. 

Robert Nairne, Jr., October 10, 1893 

Agnes May, October 8, 1896 

Tryphena E., October 29, 1899 

Francis S., October 29, 1899; *September 11, 1900 

*Turnure 

David, November 20, 1899 
Van Dike 

John Edward, December 12, 1889 ; * January 6, 1891 

John Le Roy, April 2, 1891 
Van Lennep 

Rebecca Reeves, February 19, 1887 
WardlaiD 

Virginia Randolph, August 1, 1881 

Blanche Lewis, August 6, 1883 

Eloise Mary, June 4, 1886 

Carolina Cunningham, July 19, 1891 
Whittlesey 

Walter Bell, February 20, 1886 

Cedric Fauntleroy, March 24, 1889 

Raynor Doyle, December 12, 1892 
Wilson, B. D. 

Philip Howard, April 19, 1890 

Eleanor Stewart, June 21, 1892 

Sara Bruce, May 17, 1894 

♦Deceased 

153 



Wilson, B. D. 

Annie Elizabeth, November 10, 1896 

Jane Pope, December 23, 1898 

Julia Roy, May 19, 1901 
Wilson, 8. G. 

Samuel Rhea, March 6, 1890; *November 23, 1891 

Mary Agnes, September 10, 1892 

Rose Dulles, July 25, 1894 

Esther Foster, September 21, 1897; *June 16, 1901 

Andrew Wilkins, Jr., August 13, 1899; *October 9, 1902 

Annie Rhea, June 15, 1901 

Robert Graham, July 26, 1903 
Woods 

Catharine T., March 10, 1882 

James S., August 24, 1883 

Margaretta M., May 20, 1886 

William J., December 11, 1888 

Marianne W., April 17, 1890 

Sarah E., September 1, 1892 

Joseph M., Jr., June 6, 1896 
Woolverton 

Primrose, March 7, 1886 

Dorothy, August 13, 1895 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 
Butler, H. R. 

Helen Hays, September 7, 1891 ; *August 1, 1893 

Howard Russell, Jr., November 5, 1896 
Cecil 

Mary Robinson, November "16, 1883 

Stuart R., November 20, 1884 

Lucy P., May 5, 1886 ; *December 26, 1894 

Martha B., February 1, 1888 

John G., Jr., September 5, 1889 ; *June 20, 1891 

Russell H., February 4, 1892 
*CooJc 

Edmund Garretson, November 9, 1885 
Hegeman 

Lucy Moyer, April 17, 1880 

Aletta, October 30, 1883 

♦Deceased 

154 



*McKoy, R. E. 

Mary Hasell, April 23, 1880 

Louis Brown, April 30, 1883 

Robert Hasell, Jr., June 7, 1885 

Adair Morey, February 23, 1888 

Douglas Hart, July 7, 1894 
McKoy, W. B. 

Elizabeth F., December 14, 1887 

William Ancrum, May 29, 1890 

Henry Bacon 

Francis Kelton 
Smith, (J. R. 

Mowry, August, 1891 

Carleton R., August, 1892 

Sylvia W., September, 1895 

Stevenson, W. P. 

Walker Woods, September 9, 1882 
Margaretta Faxton, September 1, 1883 

NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 

*Cuvellier 

*Vivian M. W., August 26, 1877 
♦Charles, December 24, 1878 

Rene William, November 3, 1879 

Toffiez Charles, November 10, 1882 

Lydia Jeannette, May 10, 1884 

Harold Raymond, June 20, 1887 

Carmelita Henrietta, July 9, 1889 
Delliclcer 

Mary W., April, 1880 

Fulton. C. G. 

Edith, April 23, 1884 

Cecil C, Jr., Oc-tober 12, 1886 

James A., August 18, 1889 

Green, W. W. 

Helen R., October, 1889 

♦Deceased 

155 



Holden 

Margaretta Webb, July 12, 1880 

Eleanor Sanford, March 12, 1882 

Edward Packard, Jr., January 9, 1884 

Elizabeth Cebra, December 3, 1885 
Laird 

Roberta, July 2, 1881 

Renwick S., March 7, 1885 

Robert B., August 25, 1888 

Harold S., August 8, 1891 

Olive F ) 

Paul A f October 25, 1893 

Leason 

Mary Laird, April 16, 1881 

Jefiferson Reynolds, August 11, 1883 

Helen Ross, January 5, 1889 

Judith Dull, July 5, 1891 

Myroine T., January 1, 1895 
Lyon, J. G. 

James B., 3d, October 3, 1883 

Prescott L., July 25, 1888 

Lowell Thayer, May 3, 1892 
Machy 

Helen Hoopes, June 26, 1879 

Henry Ewing, August 23, 1880 

Lucy Walker, June 24, 1883 

Alice Thompson, November 19, 1888 ; *December 3, 1889 
*Mann, H. 

Ethel Margarite, December 29, 1879; *August 19, 1880 

Emma, January 13, 1882; *February 28, 1882 
Oliphant 

Alfred Dayton J ^^^^^^^ ^gg^ 

Duncan ) 

Elizabeth Vanderveer, November 11, 1891 
Ralph, 

John Joseph, February 28, 1885 

Henry William, March 4, 1886 

Edward Daniel, November 26, 1900 

Martin Nathaniel, February 7, 1904 

♦Deceased 

156 



Rotmson, J. A. 

Louise Alexandra, October 23, 1892 

Letitia, October 6, 1893 
Roseierry 

Joseph White, April 29, 1897 
Sloan 

Eva, September 1, 1887 

Annie May, May 9, 1890 
Smith, W. McB. 

Lygon Corbin, August 17, 1882 

Oliver Carey, July 2, 1885 

Ethel Pickens, January 11, 1890 
Stohes 

Martha, September 5. 1878 

Anna, January 13, 1880 

Jordan, Jr., August 3, 1883 

James, October 28, 1887 
*Swe€t 

Charles Thompson, March 8, 1889 

Ruth Murray, November 25, 1890 
Warner 

Kingsley, June 30, 1881 ; *March 2, 1885 

Alice Gertrude, April 24, 1883 

Philip Beverley, March 2, 1885 

John McConnell, February 21, 1892 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

Wells 

Maud, November 1, 1879 
Erastus, March 7, 1881 
Lloyd P., March 9, 1885 
Jane H., October 15, 1891 
Isabella, June 24, 1895 

*Deceased 



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DEATHS 

'Tis sweet as year by year we lose 
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse 
How grows in Paradise our store. — Keble. 

Henry Rush Biddle, January 3, 1877 

George Fielding Ficklen, May 10, 1877 

Lieut. Jonathan Williams Biddle, September 30, 1877 

Lewis Malford Walker, May 10, 1878 

Robert Jacob Ross, April 10, 1879 

Samuel Davis Melton, December 10, 1880 

Warren Woodward, December 3, 1881 

Charles Hartridge, November 23, 1882 

Brodie Jackman Crawford, July 27, 1883 

Frederick Alexander Marquand, December 20, 1885 

Rev. Albert Van Deusen, January 10, 1886 

George DuBois Parmly, M.D., December 29, 1889 

Henry Horace Webster, January 17, 1891 

Lieut. Leighton Finley, February 12, 1894 

George Burnham Martin, April 29, 1896 

Rev. Harris Rogers Schenck, June 21, 1898 

Rev. William Edgar Plumley, May 14, 1901 

Cornelius Cuyler Gregory, December 4, 1901 

Frank Safford Smith, September 19, 1903 

Samuel Bartow Greene, May 10,' 1904 

Rev. Hiram Philetus Hamilton, August 20, 1905 

Arthur Baldwin Turnure, April 13, 1906 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

Frank Davenport Cook, December — , 1887 
Robert Hassell McKoy, — , 1902 

NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 

Lincoln Wood Marston, November 16, 1873 
James Sears Dickerson, February 26, 1876 

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David Jay Murphey, Jr., July 4, 1880 
Harry Backus Kaufman, December 27, 1882 
Rev. Charles Page Emerson, January 19, 1887 
Charles Talbot Mitchell, September 13, 1887 
Allen Taylor Kyle, April 5, 1889 
Harold Mann, July 31, 1889 
Charles Froome Bragg, February 22, 1893 
Jonathan Robert Sweet, June 3, 1897 
Hamilton Markley, April 4, 1900 
Bernard Charles Cuvellier, May 8, 1905 

In five year periods the deaths have been as follows; 



Ending 


'76 


'81 


'86 


'91 


'96 


'01 


'06 


Deaths 


2 


7 


6 


7 


3 


4 


7 



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RECAPITULATION 

The total membership of the Class is 157, distributed 
as follows: Graduates, Academic, 110; School of Sci- 
ence, 8; non-graduate members. Academic, 37; School 
of Science, 2. 

Deceased : Academic, 22 ; School of Science, 3 ; non- 
graduate members. Academic, 12. Total, 36. 

The living members of the Class number as follows: 
Academic, 88 ; School of Science, 6 ; non-graduate mem- 
bers. Academic, 25; School of Science, 2. Total, 121. 

Eeports have been recived for this Eecoed from 
graduates, Academic, 85 ; School of Science, 5 ; non- 
graduate members, Academic, 17 ; School of Science, 2. 
Total, 109. Of those not reporting there are but five 
of whom nothing is known. For the Eecord of 1891 
there were received 115 reports; for that of 1896, 120; 
for that of 1901, 115. 

There have been married : ■ Graduates, Academic, 89 ; 
School of Science, 8 ; non-graduate members, Academic, 
28 ; School of Science, 1. Total, 126. 

The children of the Class, as reported, number 384 
(of whom 45 are deceased; to graduates. Academic, 
were born 293; School of Science, 25; non-graduate 
members. Academic, 61 ; School of Science, 5. 

Of these children the marriages reported number 18. 

The grandchildren reported number 13. 

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THE TRICESIMAL REUNION 

'76 continues to lead all classes in the number in 
attendance at reunions;, and in its last has surpassed its 
own previous efforts, as the tabulation beloW;, culled 
from the Eecords, indicates : 





'77 


'79 


'81 


'86 


'91 


'96 


'01 


'06 


In Princeton 


— 


53 


37 


— 


24 


41 


48 


53 


At Dinner 


21 


43 


18 


50 


34 


39 


47 


46 



The arrivals on Friday, June 8, were nearly twice as 
many as at any preceding gathering, vv^hile a larger 
number than usual remained until Wednesday after- 
noon, one or two even staying until Thursday, Scudder 
seems to have been the first to appear. Then Friday 
morning President Bonner arrived and, with the aid of 
several assistants, proceeded to decorate the Headquar- 
ters, No. 31 University Place, with American flags, a 
'76 banner, and a profusion of orange and black bunt- 
ing. Ours was the best location in town, our house the 
best decorated, and attracted much attention, with fre- 
quent cheers from classes marching past. Later Friday 
trains brought H. Butler, Dunning, Miller, Hegeman, 
Kaufman, Harrison, Kenneth Bonner, C. Smith, J. A. 
L. Smith, Chapin and Elliott. Being a resident. Beach 
was already on hand. 

Every Saturday train had '76 men as passengers: 
Perrine, Walker, Lytle, Woods, Macky, Dresser and son 

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Laurence, M. N. Johnson, Ball, Stokes, Henderson, 
Parker and son Eobert, Weart, C. C. Fulton, Henry, 
J. Conger, Bryden, Cowart, Symmes, Patterson and 
son Eobert and a friend, Mann, Holden, Taylor, F. B. 
Smith, H. Todd, Noble and son Earl, Cecil, E. Lyon, 
Eussell, Stewart, Davis, A. B. Conger and Van Dike. 

THE BALL GAME 

At two o'clock p. m. our band arrived from Cran- 
bury, and, forming into line, the Class, each man carry- 
ing an orange and black '76 flag, marched through the 
campus to the University Field, and after making a 
circuit of the grounds along with other classes, took the 
seats reserved for it. To provide for the Class, members 
of the families and for friends, more than one hundred 
seats had been reserved. 

The game between Princeton and Yale on June 2, 
at New Haven, had gone to the former by a score of 
3 to 2. The game June 9 was exciting enough to 
arouse the enthusiasm of the oldest graduate. Yale 
scored two runs in the third inning, Princeton one in 
the fourth, and so the score" remained until the last 
half of the ninth inning. Then came the sensational 
ending. There were runners on second and third, two 
out, Harlan at the bat with two strikes and two balls, 
and two runs were needed. The last chance had come. 
The excitement was intense. It was up to Harlan, and 
he made good with a clean, hard hit to right field which 
won the game. It was Harlan who made the hit that 
won the game the week before. Pandemonium then 

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broke loose. The field in a moment was overrun by a 
wild, shrieking mob, from which the reuniting classes 
gradually extricated themselves and withdrew toward 
the campus. 

The return to Headquarters was accomplished in good 
order just in time to escape a shower, and rain contin- 
ued to fall for several hours, but did not prevent a 
large number attending the performance of Tabasco 
Land by the Triangle Club in the Casino that evening. 

SUNDAY SEEVICES 

Sunday was warm but as perfect a June day as 
Princeton can produce. Some went to Alexander Hall 
to hear Dr. Van Dyke, '73, deliver the Baccalaureate 
sermon, others attended the First Presbyterian Church 
and listened to a fine discourse by "Variety" Beach, the 
pastor, on "Liberty and Limitations," from Genesis 
2 :16, 17. After service all the Class present stopped to 
meet the pastor's wife and daughters, also Mrs. McCosh 
and Mrs. John T. Duffield. Incidentally it may be stated 
that the First Church is prospering under Beach's min- 
istrations, and that he has the hearty support of a large 
congregation. 

An innovation at class reunions, but one that will 
not be intentionally omitted by '76, it is safe to say, 
at any similar gathering hereafter, was the prayer-meet- 
ing held at Headquarters Sunday evening, with nearly 
all who were in town present. Chapin presided at the 
piano, Kaufman led the singing, Beach opened^ the 
meeting with the reading of a passage of Scripture and 

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a few well-chosen words^ after which a dozen men spoke 
or offered prayer, told of their beliefs and doubts, their 
joys and trials, of the influence of classmates and col- 
lege professors gone before, of the successful labors of 
our missionaries, and of the common faith in God and 
the hereafter which binds us in a union of life and 
purpose. It was a communing of veterans during a lull 
in the combat of life from which all went away strength- 
ened. 

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvahit. 

Many felt that the high-water mark of the Keunion was 
reached at this prayer-meeting. 

On Monday, Professor Cameron was a guest at lunch- 
eon. As he was retiring, the boys cheered him, and in 
acknowledging the salutation he remarked that he was 
of the class of ^47 and that at our twenty-fifth anni- 
versary there were forty-seven men at dinner. He said 
he derived much pleasure from following the career of 
former students. In his dealings with men in college 
he had always tried in every way to be absolutely fair 
and honest, and he could remember but one occasion 
when he had done a student a wrong. For this he had 
apologized, first privately, then publicly. 

Monday's arrivals were Van Lennep, E. Todd, Pugh, 
Liston, W. A. Butler, D. B. Jones, Milburn and his son 
John Eudisill. 

By previous arrangement, Mrs. McCosh was "at 
home" to the Class at half-past four. About forty men 
marched to the house, where Mrs. McCosh, who had 
completed her eighty-ninth year April 30, and seemed 

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'76 AT Mrs. McCosh's 



as vigorous as ever, received us with all her wonted 
cordiality and hospitality. "Jeff" Davis, in a few ap- 
propriate words, expressed the respect and affection felt 
by the Class for Mrs. McCosh and Dear Old Jimmie. 

Proceeding thence to the steps of Old North, we posed 
for our photograph, singing "Captain James McCartee" 
and other old favorites while Eose marshalled us into 
focus. The result is seen in the frontispiece of this 
book. 

Eesuming the march, the Class went to 26 Library 
Place, the First Church parsonage, to the reception ten- 
dered by the Eev. and Mrs. Sylvester W. Beach. The 
pastor's wife and three daughters were assisted in re- 
ceiving by Mrs. Cowart, Mrs. Elliott and Mrs. Harri- 
son. Here again "Jeff" acted as spokesman, and told, 
in his customary felicitous manner, how highly the cour- 
tesies extended were appreciated by the Class and how 
heartily all rejoiced in "Variety's" splendid work in 
Princeton. 

THE DINNEE 

By reason of alterations made in the house, it was 
possible to have the Class Dinner at Headquarters, and 
soon after eight o'clock the following assembled about 
the board : Ball, Beach, Bonner, Bryden, H. E. Butler, 
W. A. Butler, Cecil, Chapin, J. Conger, Cowart, Davis, 
Dresser, Dunning, Elliott, C. C. Fulton, Harrison, 
Hegeman, Henderson, Henry, Holden, M. N. Johnson, 
D. B. Jones, Kaufman, Liston, E. D. Lyon, Lytic, 
Macky, Mann, Milburn, Miller, Noble, Parker, Patter- 
son, Perrine, Pugh, Eussell, Scudder, C. E. Smith, J. A. 

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L. Smith, Stewart, Taylor, H. A. Todd, Van Lennep, 
Walker, Weart, Woods and Kenneth Bonner. 

A brief business meeting was held, resulting in the 
re-election of the oflBcers and committees, with the addi- 
tion of Hegeman to the Executive Committee. 

Grace was said by Beach, and "Old Nassau" was sung 
from copies of the song bearing the autograph of Lang- 
lotz, the composer, and presented to each by our worthy 
President with his autograph and good wishes. The 
following menu was then discussed : 

Menu 

Grape Fruit with Eum and Maraschino Cherries 

Clam Soup with Whipped Cream 

■Salted Nuts Olives Eadishes 

Soft-shell Crabs, Sauce Tartare 

Spring Lamb, Mint Sauce 

New Potatoes Green Peas 

Asparagus, Hollandaise Sauce 

Broiled Squab 

Lettuce and Tomatoes 

Ice-cream and" Strawberries 

Cake 

Toasted Crackers 

Port de Salut and Camembert Cheese 

Candies and Fruits 

Coffee 

Before the speaking began the dinner-cards were 
passed around the board, and signed, so that each man 

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bore away as a souvenir not only "Old Nassau" but the 
autograph of every one present. 

Toasts and Responses 

Egbert Edwin Bonner, President 
Henry M. Eussell, Toastmaster 

" There are no friends like old friends, 
And none so good and true ; 
We greet them when we meet them 
As roses greet the dew." — French. 

" At first and last the hearty welcome." — Anon. 

" Bach hour of the past lends its tribute to this, 
Till it blooms like a bower in the Garden of Bliss." — Holmes. 

1. Alma Mater, - - Egbert E. Bgnneb 

" We'll unite to shout and sing, 
Long life to Old Nassau." 

2. Classmates Gone Before, - - In Silence 

" Deposited upon the silent shore of memory. 
That shall not die and cannot be destroyed." — Wordsworth. 

3. Our Noble Selves— Old '76 - Henry E. Davis 

" Not what we sing or what we say 
Can make us dearer to each other. 
We love the singer and his lay. 

But love as well the silent brother." — Holmes. 

4. The Preceptorial System and Work of the Trustees 

George B. Stewart 

" Above all Greek, above all Roman fame." — Pope. 
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5. Surgical Operation — "Cupping" 

Henry M. Eussell 

" Certainly this is a pleasant duty." — Wesley. 

6. Princeton in the Southwest, John G. Cecil 

"Oh ! for a beaker full of the warm South." — Keats. 

7. Poem, _ - . William J. Henderson 

" Blessings be with them and eternal praise 
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs 
Of truth and pure delights by heavenly lays." — Wordsworth. 

" We will bid our old Harper sing on till he dies." — Holmes. 

8. Presbyterianism from the Latin Quarter to the 

Old First Church, - Sylvester W. Beach 

" 'Twas Presbyterian true blue." — Butler. 

9. College Men in Public Life, 0. Britt Brown 

" The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, 
the hand to execute." — Junius. 

10. Married Brothers, - Thomas I. Elliott 

" It happens as with cages ; the birds without despair to get in 
And those within despair of getting out." — Montaigne. 

11. Princeton in the Northwest, David B. Jones 

" Let our brothers of the West 
Write smiling in their flowing pages." — Holmes. 

12. New Jersey — the Home of Old Nassau, 

Spencer Weaet 

" Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground." — Byron. 
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13. The Committee, - Henry L. Harrison 

" Men of most renowned virtue." — Milton. 

14. The Ladies, - - - J. Frank Ball 

" We admire them for their beauty ; respect them 
for their intelligence ; adore them for their virtue 
and love them because we can't help it." — Anon. 



" Fill up the lonely glass and drain it 
In memory of dear old times." — Thackeray. 

" A health to our future — a sigh for the past — 
We love, we remember, we hope to the last." — Holmes. 

" A sudden thought strikes me — let's 
swear eternal friendship." — Frere. 

" Joy so seldom weaves a chain 
Like this to-night, that, oh ! 'tis pain 
To break its links so soon." — Moore. 

The Speeches * 

In responding to the toast, "Our Alma Mater," Bon- 
ner said that he had never felt so inadequate to an 
occasion as to this one, but that the man who had 
spent four years in Princeton and could hot say any- 
thing must be dumb indeed. He told the boys why he 
had presented each one at the Eeunion with a copy of 
the new edition of "Old Nassau." He recalled to their 
memories the remark of Josh Hartwell, the famous Yale 
football player, that he knew it was all up with his 
team as soon as he heard the Princeton rooters singing 
that confounded Presbyterian hymn of theirs. Bonner 

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asked the boys to remember the power of the Scotch in- 
fluences in the history of Princeton. In 1768 Wither- 
spoon became President of the college. Just a hundred 
years later came McCosh. These dates marked two 
periods in the development of the institution. In con- 
clusion Bonner declared that in these days some alumni 
were not properly recognized in the award of degrees. 
If Dr. McCosh were alive, he asserted, this would not be 
the case. He then gave the boys some account of the 
work of the Class Officers' Association, calling attention 
to its successful labors in reforming some abuses com- 
mon at class reunions among the younger alumni. 

Eussell gave the next toast, "Classmates Gone Be- 
fore," which was drunk in silence, after which "Jeff" 
Davis responded to "Our Noble Selves, Old '76." "Jeff" 
referred to our visit to the First Church on Sunday 
and spoke feelingly of the inspiration there of Beach, 
Mrs. McCosh, and Mrs. Duffield. Then he touched upon 
the emotions awakened by the presence of Professor 
Cameron at luncheon. "Cam" said to him as he was 
departing, "You're the best class in loyalty and Prince- 
ton spirit that ever went out of the college." "Jeff" had 
been down to see Mr. Cleveland and the former Presi- 
dent, rejoicing in his own Princetonianism, threw the 
gauntlet at other colleges by saying, "We beat them in 
two things — our campus and our alumni spirit." "Jeff's" 
main point was the steadfastness of the faith of the 
Class. He recalled to us how we had been shaken by the 
philosophy of Tyndall, Huxley and their contempora- 
ries. He told how he had gone to "Jimmy" for aid in 
settling his own mind. "Jimmy" said to him, "The 

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'76 Headquarters 




The CiiAMPioxsiiir Fire 



trustees and the faculty don't want me to notice these 
things in my teachings, but I must do it. Either they 
are wrong or they are right. If they are wrong, I must 
show it. If they are right, we must accept what they 
say. It is in the hands of God how we work out." 
The Class, declared "Jeff," was the beneficiary of 
"Jimmy's" impreg-nability in this matter, a sentiment 
which the boys cheered. 

In responding to the "Preceptorial System and the 
Board of Trustees," "Paley" Stewart explained the na- 
ture of the new system of instruction and paid a warm 
tribute to the work of the Alumni Trustees. 

"Slim" next called upon himself for "A Surgical Op- 
eration — Cupping," and on behalf of the Class presented 
silver loving cups to Bonner and Harrison in recogni- 
tion of their years of devotion to the interests of the 
Class. His speech will be found in connection with 
"The Story of the Cups." 

Bonner was quite overcome, but responded with much 
feeling in a few pertinent words. The General was 
equally moved, and made a reply which was so grace- 
ful that it quite took the bo3^s by storm. Then the less 
emotional speech-making continued. 

Cecil, in his response to "Princeton in the South- 
west," aroused great enthusiasm by announcing that he 
had recently joined the Ancient and Independent Order 
of Grandpaps and had a grandson entered for the class 
of 1926. Cecil had not been back for thirty years, and 
he had something to say about the changes he found in 
Princeton. Then he turned his attention to the glori- 
fication of Kentucky and read the boys a poem clipped 

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from a newspaper telling how everything was better in. 
Kentucky than anywhere else. 

Henderson, at the request of the committee, had pre- 
pared some verses for the occasion, and these came next 
on the list. Here they are: 

NoN MoRiTUKi Salutamus Te 

So rest we here some moments on the steep, 

That from youth's valley slopes up to the skies; 

The cloudy veil of years we backward sweep, 
And look once more each other in the eyes. 

How is it with you, brother? And with you? 

Have you grown weary on the climbing way? 
How is it with you, brother? Is it rue 

That twines about your brows, or is it bay? 

How is it with you, brother ? Is there rust 

Upon the triple armor of your soul. 
Or are you still in shining courage trussed 

To answer trumpet call and war drum's roll? 

How is it with you, brother? Has the world 
Crushed out the faith of thirty years ago. 

Or does the banner that you then unfurled 
Still fling its message wide to friend and foe? 

How is it with you, brother? Are you tired. 
And do your eyes flame low, like burnt-out wicks. 

Or are you still Time's master, filled and fired 
With blazing spirit of young Seventy-six? 

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I answer for you, I who read your eyes. 

Your years reach not the given threescore ten ; 
And some are bold and some are passing wise, 

And some are swift and all of you are men. 

You joy for that there still is work to do; 

Upon the buried past you shed no tears; 
But forward, forward, valiant men and true, 

You march to meet the yet oncoming years. 

Some heads are gray — oh, yes,— and some are white ; 

But Time shall touch the thinning locks in vain ; 
The snows shall ward the winter wheat aright 

Till harvest moon shall gild the ripened grain. 

Oh, Alma Mater, at whose tender breast 

We drank the fountains of our manhood's birth. 

Receive to-night thy sons from East and West 
To tell thee now they know what all was worth. 

Non morituri salutamus te ! 

We bow before thy temples and thy towers; 
Our banners flaunt, not ended is our day ; 

To thee we consecrate anew our powers. 



How is it with you, brothers? Do you stand 
With hearts of brass to meet the coming strife : 

Then grip to grip shut close each loyal haud, 
And pledge our mother what is left of life. 
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Perchance the sight may waver and grow dim. 
But still our eyes upon the stars we fix ; 

Lo, where they kiss our mountain's hoary rim; 
Climb upward still, ye men of Seventy-six ! 

Beach was next called upon and before he could speak 
"Jeff" called for three cheers, which were heartily given. 
Beach was asked to talk about "Presbyterianism from 
the Latin Quarter to the Old First Church/' and he said 
it was a far cry from Paris to Princeton. He told how 
he went to Paris to take up his work there, and gave 
an interesting account of the labor imposed upon him. 
He delighted the boys by telling them that the first 
financial aid received from America came from our 
Class President. He then descanted on the strength of 
the aid given by the members of the Class to each other 
and begged the boys not to forget that the work in Paris 
was in the hands of a good man and still needed their 
assistance. 

Bonner arose and promised that the Class would send 
$1,000 to aid the work, "even," he added, "if I have to 
underwrite the whole amount myself." But as $435 of 
it was subscribed on the spot, it looked as if "Eeddy" 
would come out all right. 

"Oby" Brovra. was to have been the next speaker, but 
he was kept away by a slight accident and "Yap" Walker 
was called upon in his place to respond to the toast of 
"College Men in Public Life." "Yap" declared that 
the Class of '76 was a glorious host of men, and these 
men were his inspiration. When he felt blue or dis- 
couraged he always took out his photographs of the boys 

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and looked them over. That put heart into him again. 
The Class made him feel a pride in his own work. It 
would never do to have Seventy-six ashamed of him. 
He wanted the Class to be proud of him. "Yap" in con- 
clusion stirred up the assembly by declaring that Sev- 
enty-six was not only the best class that had ever gradu- 
ated, but the best that ever would ! 

Tommy Elliott responded for the "Married Brothers." 
At the last previous reunion Tommy talked for the un- 
married, but in the meanwhile he had instituted an era 
of reform, and he brought the fair young graft with 
him to Princeton to show why he did it. No one 
blamed him, except Eddie Lyon, and he is incorrigible. 
Elliott apologized for staying among the lonely for so 
many years, and he expressed his sorrow for those who 
had not seen the error of their ways as he had. He 
paid a pretty tribute to the noble women who had been 
so fortunate as to join the Class before Mrs. Elliott did. 

D. Jones responded to the toast, "Princeton in the 
Northwest." He expatiated on the splendor of our aca- 
demic background. Princeton, he said, goes everywhere 
with the Princeton man. He roasted Frank Dunning 
by telling how Brackett got back at him away back in 
Soph year. Then he entered upon an argument against 
the routine re-election of Alumni Trustees. He believed 
that they ought not to be re-elected as a mere matter 
-of course, but that the Board should be kept fresh by 
the continual infusion of new blood. He vowed that he 
would not serve again. The boys did not appear to 
think that he would be allowed to have his own way in 
the matter. 

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In responding to "New Jersey, the Home of Old Nas- 
sau/' Weart told about a dozen good stories that had 
nothing to do with his subject, and then related how 
"Polly" Parker's talk at home about the boys of Seventy- 
six had made Little Tin's name known to Governor Par- 
ker, so that when the latter was a judge he had helped 
Weart out of a trying position in the trial of a case. 
Weart paid a warm tribute to the Princeton men at the 
New Jersey bar. 

"General" Plarrison, called upon to speak for the com- 
mittee, was exceedingly brief. He read a card from 
Professor Hunt expressing his appreciation of the at- 
tention shown by the Class in sending cards to his resi- 
dence to manifest sympathy for the loss of his wife. 
The "General" told the boys what was doing in the way 
of preparing this Eecokd. Bonner read letters from 
men of Seventy-five who had been guests of the Class, 
and then "Bloody" Ball made his customary tear in re- 
sponding for "The Ladies." He declared that all that 
was best in the men of the Class was attributable to the 
women, whereupon bad boy Eddie Lyon shrieked, "You 
can't prove it." "I don't have to," answered "Bloody," 
"I'm talking to a packed jury," Bonner called on 
Howard Butler to say a word about the new lake and 
Howard told how he had put the notion of giving the 
money into the capacious head of Andrew Carnegie. 
Then we adjourned. It was near the dawn, but time 
had sped lightly. We had all had a goodly dose of the 
sort of instruction described by "Yap," and we went to 
bed with renewed convictions that we were mighty for- 
tunate to belong to that Class. 

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An important feature of Tuesday is the Alumni 
luncheon, given in the Grymnasium. Several classmates 
had found it necessary to leave town in the morning, 
but '76 was well represented. When coffee and cigars 
came round, Jacobus, '77, presiding in the absence of 
President Wilson, introduced "Paley" Stewart, who read 
the following: 

"We, the Alumni of Princeton University, assembled 
at the 159th Commencement, beg to express our great 
joy that our prayer for your speedy and complete 
recovery is being answered, and we assure you of 
our unceasing desires for your good health and the 
long continuance of your valued service to our Alma 
Mater." 

After representatives of '56, '61 and '71 had sounded 
the praises of their classes, Henderson spoke for '76. 
He said that '76 was only thirty years old, therefore in 
the prime of youth. He had no reminiscences to give, 
but a promise and a pledge. "You shall continue to 
hear from us. There is lots of fight left in us. The 
spirit of '76 is the embodiment of the spirit of Prince- 
ton, which is summed up in the words faith and love. 
When we say '^Por Princeton,' that means 'For God, for 
country, and for mankind.' " 

In view of the fact that Princeton had won two 
straight games of baseball from both Harvard and Yale, 
and thus the intercollegiate championship, there was a 
"championship fire" about the old cannon Tuesday even- 
ing, when several hundred dollars' worth of combus- 
tibles went up in fiame and smoke. As '76 had a 
twenty-five-dollar share in it, and other reuniting classes 

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were probably similarly favored, perhaps it might better 
have been called a "championship and alumni fire." 

On Wednesday appeared Bob Wilson, who had 
preached the baccalaureate sermon at the Kiskeminetas 
School on the preceding Sunday, and had been kept 
away from the dinner by other engagements. On this 
day Liston received his A.M. at the Commencement ex- 
ercises. In the afternoon a delegation of a dozen saw 
the University of Pennsylvania defeat Princeton by a 
score of three to two. 

Then the Headquarters were dismantled and late af- 
ternoon trains bore away the remnant, excepting one or 
two who stayed until Thursday. The universal testi- 
mony was that this was our best Eeunion. Surely there 
could not have been a better. As Billy Kaufman re- 
marked afterwards, "I do not see how I could have stood 
a better time," and the sentiment finds response in the 
hearts of all participants. 

Benovata est ut aquila juventus nostra. 

The following were in town during Commencement 
Week for a longer or shorter period, but were not there 
Monday evening for the dinner : A. B. Conger, P. B. 
Smith, Stokes, Symmes, E. N. Todd, Van Dike and 
E. D. Wilson. 

H. Brown came from Los x4ngeles, Cal., for the Ee- 
imion, but on his arrival at Washington, D. C, he was 
taken ill and was compelled to remain there. 

0. B. Brown met with an accident the evening he was 
to have started for Princeton, and his physician forbade 
his traveling. 

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Oliphant was kept away by sickness. Stokes was pre- 
vented from attending the dinner by an engagement in 
Montreal for that evening. 

Symmes' practice interfered with his attendance at 
the dinner. 

The Faculty took advantage of the gathering to give 
Beach the honor of acting as judge at the Junior Ora- 
torical Contest Saturday morning, and Bonner a simi- 
lar honor at the Lynde Prize Debate Tuesday evening. 

Through the initiative of '76 men the Trunk Line 
Association sold tickets to Princeton for Commence- 
ment at the rate of one-and-one-third railroad fare for 
the round trip. 



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TEEASURER'S REPORT 

Eeceipts 

1901 January 1, balance $33 . 96 

Surplus from Eeimion of 1901 21.33 

Subscriptions for Eecord of 1901.... 295.03 

Contributions to meet deficit 472.10 

1902. Use of half-tone plates 4.00 

1903. From baseball tickets 4.25 

1904. Use of half-tone plates 15 . 00 

1905. December 31, deficit 17.78 



$863.35 



Expenses 

1901. June, to secure Headquarters $25.00 

Eecoed of 1901, Illustrations 274.75 

Printing, binding and mailing. . 450.80 
Circulars, postage, etc 47 . 75 

1902. Circulars, postage, etc 12.77 

1903. Circulars, postage, etc 15.00 

Princeton Alumni Weekly sent to Class 8.18 

1904. Circulars, postage, etc 6.35 

1905. Circulars, postage, etc 22.75 

$863.35 
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THE STOEY OF THE CUPS 

In the latter part of March of the present year, the 
Executive Committee of the Class met at the Princeton 
Club in ISTew.York City, adjourning after some prelim- 
inary discussion to the residence of William Allen But- 
ler, Jr., for the purpose of taking up matters in connec- 
tion with the Eeunion of the Class in June. When the 
meeting adjourned, and those elements of constant fric- 
tion, our President and Secretary, had made themselves 
welcome by their absence, a few, who retain something 
of their owly habits which always had a tendency to lead 
them into trouble, took up the discussion of past re- 
unions and their success. It was the unanimous opin- 
ion that those successes, as well as the close knitting to- 
gether of the Class, for which '76 is noted, were due to 
the earnest labor of two men, Ed. Bonner and 
"General" Harrison. 

"Slim" Eussell, with his usual keen, ponderous and 
calm insight into all that is philanthropic and pertain- 
ing to "man's dutj^ to man," remarked that the Class 
had been out of college for thirty j^ears, and had never 
made a suitable acknowledgment of all "Eeddy" and 
the "General" had done for us ; that he thought the Ee- 
union in June was a fit and proper occasion for the 
Class to express its sense of obligation to and warm 
regard for these two men in the shape of a souvenir, 
either loving cups, engraved with suitable sentiments, 

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or something of that kind. The idea was heartily en- 
dorsed, and after enjoying the benefit of "Slim's" bril- 
liant intellect and profound wisdom, each one thought 
it remarkably strange that the idea had occurred to no 
one before. 

After some discussion of ways and means, how best 
to carry out "Slim's" happy thought, it was decided to 
issue a letter to every member of the Class who was 
within reasonable reach. This did not include those 
who were in foreign countries, and who could not re- 
spond before our meeting in June. It was thought best, 
so that the movement might present itself as coming 
from the Class and not as emanating from any locality 
or from a few, that the consent of a considerable num- 
ber from different parts of the country should be ob- 
tained to the signing of their names to such letter. In 
every case there was a prompt and cordial assent. In 
this way the letter was issued over some fifteen names, 
with William Allen Butler, Jr., Chairman. One hun- 
dred letters were sent out and sixty-six responses re- 
ceived. It was the desire that every member should 
take part, and to that end the self-appointed committee 
asked for small subscriptions only. The response to the 
letter was so prompt that the first reply was received 
before the letter had been in the mail twenty-four hours, 
and answers continued to be received by the treasurer of 
the fund in every mail up to and including the meeting 
of the Class at Princeton. They came from every 
quarter of our great country, from Los Angeles to the 
Atlantic, from Seattle to New Orleans, and although 
the committee largely expanded their original idea, 

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The Loving Cup 



there was every prospect of "an embarrassment of 
riches." After all their efforts to meet the conditions 
the committee found themselves with an over-subscrip- 
tion, which they had to turn into the general Class 
fund. 

The financial was the least weighty part of these re- 
sponses, they all contained so deep an appreciation and 
fond regard, that the committee, fearing, hereafter, 
their inability to approach the Class officers, concluded 
it better to withhold them, and embody their sentiment 
in the inscription on the cups. 

The selection of the cups was left to "Slim" and the 
treasurer, who, after a careful search, bought them from 
The Whiting Manufacturing Company, though the 
cups were made by the Gorham Company of iSFew York. 

They are exact duplicates, standing eight and a half 
inches high and twenty-one inches in circumference, 
with three handles, and engraved alike, with the excep- 
tion that Bonner's reads, "twenty years as President," 
and Harrison's "thirty years as Secretary." 

The full inscription reads : 

June 28th, 1876, 

Presented hy the Class of '76, 

Princeton College, 

To 

Robert Edwin Bonner, 

In token of the esteem of his Classmates and their deep 

appreciation of his faithful, indefatigable and loyal 

services as President of the Class for Twenty years. 

June 11th, 1906. 

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This is surrounded by a wreath of olive leaves. 

On the General's cup the inscription is the same with 
the exception noted above and the substitution of Henry 
L. Harrison for Eobert Edwin Bonner. 

On both cups are engraved the seal of the College of 
New Jersey, the old seal used in our time, and the mon- 
ogram and motto of the Class. J. A. H. 

THE CUP COMMITTEE'S WORK 

After deciding that loving cups were to be the token 
of our esteem, "Tap" was appointed by the Committee 
to undertake the work of bringing about the desired re- 
sult. With his usual prompt and businesslike action 
he at once sent out requests for signatures to the general 
letter to the Class. Upon receiving them he prepared 
the letter which was sent to all the members who were 
not in foreign lands. 

Then came the more arduous and careful task of se- 
lecting the cups and deciding upon the inscription and 
engraving. He visited Tiffany, Gorham, Whiting and 
various other silversmiths, and after tiring out two men 
at Tiffany's and putting another out of business at Gor- 
ham's, finally came upon what he wanted at Whiting's. 
The selection met the unanimous approval of the Com- 
mittee, and then he tackled the engraving. 

He thought the old college coat-of-arms of our day 
and not the present university one was more appropri- 
ate, and again the Committee agreed. The search foi- 
the college arms proving unsuccessful, he pressed "John- 
nie" Johnson into service and they finally purloined 

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one : this is the only sad feature of the cups. In a state 
of joyous exultation "Tap" "dashed off" the inscription 
which adorns the cups, and then worried the life out of 
the engraver till all was finished, which was only at the 
last moment. The work was thoroughly done and he 
procured as fine a result as it was possible for the 
silversmith's art to turn out, and one of which the Class 
may well be proud. 

The Committee takes this opportunity of thanking 
him for his labors. The cups were taken by hand -to 
Princeton on Friday and carefully stored away in 
"Tap's" room, where all the boys except "Ed" and "Gen- 
eral" were invited to inspect them. There they reposed 
till the night of presentation, when "Charlie" Smith 
and "Tap" brought them into the dining-room under 
their coat-tails and kept them hid till they were called 
for. ' H. M. E. 

THE PRESENTATION SPEECH 

Thirty years ago this month there passed through the 
portals of "Old !N"assau" a band of young history-mak- 
ers. They were firm of tread, lofty of bearing and 
strong in heart. Together they composed "the largest 
and finest class that has ever graduated from me col- 
lege," as dear old "Jimmie" said, and for once, and 
probably the only time, we agreed with him. Needless 
for me to state that such a magnificent aggregation of 
brains and enthusiasm could be no other than our glo- 
rious old '76. For four years we had struggled and 
played, laughed and sorrowed together, and were now 

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about to go forth into that unknown "wide, wide world" 
and take up the settling of all the vast problems that 
seemed to disturb and fret this poor old globe and its 
greybeards. At least we thought we were going to 
do so. 

To-day, after a generation of battle with the world, 
we have come back to visit again that dear old Alma 
Mater, from whose dugs, as "Doc" Dunning so classi- 
cally and eloquently translated it, we drew our early 
nourishment and the inspiration of our young manhood, 
and to pledge anew to her our undying love; to give 
each of the "old boys" the hearty handclasp; to hear 
again the cordial "God bless you, old fellow," to toast 
our noble selves, and incidentally to perform a little 
operation of cupping upon a couple of our members. 
Cupping is defined as "an operation by which cups are 
applied to the body for the purpose of extracting hu- 
mors," and that is what we are going to try to do to- 
night. Through all parts of our broad land the boys 
have come trooping back and still the same old '76, even 
after a generation has sped its length. 

But to what changes in environment are our eyes in- 
vited ! When you went forth, thirty years ago, your 
bodies were thin and your hair was curly, to-night it is 
your hair that is thin and your bodies are curly; in 
place of the foaming glass of "Hankin's Best" the stu- 
dent now goes to the Inn and luxuriates in the stein of 
imported Hofbraii; in place of the steady, even-going 
steeds of Dyke Gulick that "Billy" Kaufman and 
"Jack" Miller used to drive on their trips to Kingston 
and Eocky Hill, we see the gay and festive automobile 

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dashing furiously along the streets or making frantic 
efforts to cross the walk and climb one of the elms on 
the campus, — ^you know nothing so lively as that would 
have done for "Jack'^ and "Billy" on those trips; they 
wanted something they could drive with one hand; in 
the place of the old canal, where we used to swim and 
where "Yap" Walker had his clothes impounded by the 
bridge-keeper's wife, we behold the elaborate swimming- 
pool and its accessories; no longer do the boys figure up 
what their "drawbacks" on coal will be at the end of 
the term, for the steam-pipes have taken the place of 
the old stoves and the "exhaust" is the only drawback 
on the steam; you now receive from your boys the same 
kind of letters our fathers used to receive, asking for 
further remittances on account of the heavy dues of the 
literary societies and new books. Are you as dead easy 
to the "touch" as your father, or has the "old man" 
grown wise in his day and generation? The gray has 
commenced to show a little on the temples. You brush 
nervously the long hairs over that increasing bald spot, 
you wear your waistcoats a little looser, the chest line 
has diminished a bit while the waist line has increased, 
and your forehead is pushing onward to claim acquain- 
tance vi^ith the nape of your neck. 

Those dear old halls ! What a debt we owe to them ! 
How many a frolic to Trenton and Philadelphia, and 
how many a symposium at Carl Hellerman's they paid 
in our day, and are still paying with their tremendous 
dues, no one can tell. If for no other reason than this, 
let their memory ever be bright and green with us! 
Change is the order all around us ! In our student days 

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"Hendy" was the one -upon whom we relied to court 
the muse and sing us sweet lays. But alas ! how fickle 
is fame and how fleeting ! For a rival has appeared in 
"Polly" Parker, who, after spending years in courting 
the girls, has taken to courting the muse also and now 
appears as the steady contributor to the "Poets' Corner" 
of the Monmouth County Democrat; in fact, he is the 
"whole push," And another proof of change, "Bloody" 
now comes straight through to Princeton and doesn't 
stop off at Trenton. Yet, with all these changes and 
innovations, we find ourselves the same old boys at 
heart, and we join in the old choruses as of yore, and 
match up a good round of old-fashioned cheers against 
the new-fangled short and locomotive cheers of to-day, 
in sturdy '76 fashion. 

We have kept in touch with each other and followed 
each boy's doings during those thirty years, rejoicing 
as we have read of their successes. But all this has not 
been brought about by luck or any stroke of chance. 
It has been accomplished by persistent and painstaking 
effort on the part of the Committee in charge of the 
class afi'airs, and especially, and almost solely, of our 
President and Secretary, Bonner and Harrison. They 
have labored long, earnestly and faithfully, and we have 
received the benefit of their labors. So to-night we pro- 
pose to tender them a little testimonial of our esteem 
and appreciation, and to me has been given the honor of 
presenting these tokens; and I fully appreciate the 
honor, I assure you. Just what form our token should 
take was quite a puzzle for the Committee. One pro- 
posed that we should cane them ; but as they are too old 

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to have the cane put on them, and are not old enough to 
put themselves on the cane, that idea was given up. 
"Bev'^ Warner suggested "spotted coach-dogs or beauti- 
fully embroidered chest-protectors." These struck the 
Committee most favorably ; but after a long and careful 
search "Tap," who had been appointed a committee to 
investigate, reported that he had been unable to find 
coach-dogs embroidered beautifully enough, or chest- 
protectors with a sufficient number of spots, and so we 
were obliged to take refuge "in our cups." 

In giving you these cups we do not seek to repay 
you for your labors ; that cannot be done. You have la- 
bored long, faithfully and loyally and have given freely, 
even lavishly, of your time, strength and means. ISTo 
part of the work has been too great and no detail too 
trifling for you to attend to ; but all has been done care- 
fully, unselfishly, and in love for the Class, and we have 
enjoyed the fruit of your labors. And you also may 
be proud to serve such a Class ! Its record is a noble 
one ; and wherever they may be, from Maine to the 
golden shores of stricken California, from "where rolls 
the Oregon" to the sun-kissed waves of the Gulf, from 
the Occident to the Orient, they are all doing their duty, 
as God gives them to see that duty, earnestly and man- 
fully ! They are bearing in mind and living up to our 
class motto, "Palame arete," "the crown to the worthy." 
The Vi^orld is better for the lives of the boys of '76. 
To be officers of such a body of men is no mean, no 
trifling honor. You two have shown how highly you 
prize that honor in the manner in which you have filled 
your positions and labored in the interest of the Class. 

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As a token of our love and esteem for you, personally 
and officially, we present you with these loving cups. 
Take them and receive them with hearts as full as the 
hearts of those who give them! Prize them as among 
your choicest possessions ! Place them in your homes 
where you can see them and be cheered by them ! And 
when the dark and blue days shall come, as come they 
do to all, let your eyes rest upon their glowing sides; 
read their inscription, and calling to mind the love and 
confidence of the "old boys" — a love as sterling as the 
silver of which they are made — the clouds will pass 
away and you will come forth refreshed and strength- 
ened, and, filled with a new draught of the "spirit of 
'76," will go forth, as of yore, with high heart and in- 
domitable courage to your life's struggle. 

" And, when the stream 
Which overflowed the soul was passed away, 
A consciousness remained that it had left, 
Deposited upon the silent shore 
Of memory, images and precious thoughts 
That shall not die and cannot be destroyed." 



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CAPTAIN JAMES McCARTHY 



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old Nassau for a few days" rest and recuperation. On 
the town of Trenton and the city of Philadelphia, an 
with a bunch of army officers who sang for them this 
officers occured in Trenton or Philadelphia was not mi 
lapses of memor}^ during their absence. Fortunately, ; 
allow the youths to memorize the words of the song, al 



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For 'twas Captain James McCarthy 

And Sergeant Donohoe, 
They made us march and toe the mark 

In the ree'lar armv — oh ! 



t out to fight tlT2 In-di-ans, 
the yellow mud, 
didn't get sight of an In-di-an, 
turnip, nor a spud. 

lin — For 'twas Captain, etc. 



And if a war should break out 
And devastate the land, 

We'd hire Eyetalian substitutes 
And tell them to be . 

Refrain — For 'twas Captain, etc. 



'he Legend of Captain James McCarthy 

beautiful October afternoon some thirty odd years ago, 
Pey" M. and "Slim" R. deserted the classic shades of dear 
leir return it was learned from them that they did visit 
also that at some time during their journey they met 
ow famous "76 song. Whether this meeting with the 
e plain by the travelers, as there seemed to have been 
)wever, there was one lucid interval sufficiently long to 
1 this is how Capt. James McCarthy came to Princeton. 



'76 AND THE PEINCETON 
LAKE 

Howard Eussell Butler addressed tke Prineeton Club 
of New York on the evening of April 20th, on the 
history of the Lake, the circumstances of its inception, 
its engineering and landscape features, and the purpose 
of Mr. Carnegie in making the gift. In beginning his 
address, Mr. Butler referred to his experiences as cox- 
swain of the Princeton crew of 1874, and said that he 
realized then that the canal was no place for rowing. 
He said the lake project was born thirty years ago, but 
that it had always slumbered. 

"Early in 1902," he continued, "I happened to go to 
Princeton with Mr. Carnegie. He wanted to call on 
ex-President Cleveland. As the branch train crossed 
the trestle at Stony Brook, I said to him, pointing down 
to the meadovi^s, 'We once had an idea of flooding all 
those marshes to make a lake for Princeton College.' 
His reply was, 'That seems like a good idea. Why 
didn't you carry it out?' To which I replied, 'Because 
we couldn't raise the money.' 

"Gentlemen, I disclaim that I had any intention of 
asking for a lake, or any merit in obtaining it. I was 
not fishing for the lake, much as I hope to fish in it in 
time to come. But the seed had fallen on good ground. 
Mr. Carnegie had been engaged in loch building in 
Scotland. He had already completed several lakes and 

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he was evidently longing to build another, and he asked 
me to consult with friends of the University and obtain 
estimates." The speaker then told of consultations with 
M. Taylor Pyne, '11, C. C. Cuyler, '79, William Allen 
Butler, Jr., '76, and other alumni, and of a meeting at 
Mr. Carnegie's house in New York, at which, besides 
Mr. Carnegie and himself, John W. Aitken, '69, Dr. 
J. J. Garmany, '79, and President Wilson, '79, were 
present. He continued : 

"After some general discussion Mr. Carnegie pro- 
posed to build the lake for the benefit of Princeton Uni- 
versity, and asked President Wilson and all of us if it 
would be a good thing. As all agreed that it would be, 
he said he would do it, and that he would want me to 
attend to the detail of the work, by and with the ap- 
proval of an advisory committee of Princeton friends. 
He subsequently executed a power of attorney to me 
covering the purchase of the lands and the building of 
all constructions." 

Mr. Butler described in detail the purchasing of the 
land to be flooded and part of the adjoining properties, 
and explained the long delay occasioned in reaching an 
agreement with the Pennsylvania Eailroad concerning 
the tow-path of the canal. Finally : 

"All the needed property has now been acquired ex- 
cept one piece. Counting this piece at the offer last 
made, the total cost of all the properties amounts (in- 
cluding the farms) to about $103,000, of which $34,000 
has been taken off Mr. Carnegie's hands, and he has 
paid out about $69,000. Of this, $22,000 represents 
the mill at Kingston, the balance, $47,000, represents 

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the cost of the lake bottom, shores and a few isolated 
buildings thereon. 

"Tlie length will be three and one-half miles; its 
width from 400 to 1,000 feet. Starting at the college 
property with a width of about 400 feet, it soon reaches 
a width of 850 feet at a point where a number of islands 
occur and where the swimming pools will be located. 

"Passing Harrison Street, the lake will occupy the 
entire width of the valley, that is, between the tow-path 
and the hill. At Harry's Brook, which runs down 
through the Gulick property, it will be 1,000 feet wide. 
It narrows again on the Ferguson property, until the 
dam is reached, where it is 650 feet wide. There will 
be ample room for a three-mile course, of which the fin- 
ish will be in front of the college land. 

"The only bridges traversing the main lake are at 
Washington Street and Harrison Street. 

"The lake channel, 300 feet wide, will have a depth at 
the upper part of the lake of about 3 feet 5 inches. The 
lower part of the lake channel will reach a maximum 
depth of six feet at the dam. 

"The river channel depth will be about six to eight 
feet at the head of the lake and twelve feet at the 
dam. . . . 

"The natural scenic effects of Princeton Lake are go- 
ing to be very beautiful. A view from the foot of 
Washington Street will be especially so. Looking 
toward the east from that point you will get the benefit 
of the wide stretch, well wooded on the Princeton side, 
with the several islands in view, and there is a fine out- 
line presented against the sky, of the rapidly descend- 

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ing northern slope. We have wished to plan a beauti- 
ful driveway surrounding the lake. This cannot be car- 
ried out absolutely, but by making use of the present 
roads and building others, a seven-mile drive can be 
made, which I believe will become the drive of 
Princeton. 

"Suppose we start from the foot of Washington 
Street. We propose to build a shore road along the lake 
forming the edge of the embankment at that point. It 
will enter the Olden woods and will in general follow 
the line of the old cart track, whicn some of you may 
have discovered. It continues through a portion of the 
Lombard place, skirting the shore to the foot of Harri- 
son Street. The drive will then cross the Lake by one 
of the new steel bridges to be erected by Mr. Carnegie, 
and following the new line of roadway will skirt the 
edge of the Lake at Aqueduct meadows, where it will 
cross the meadows on the old steel bridge which is now 
at Harrison Street. The drive will then again skirt 
the lake, following the present road except at the distil- 
lery, where the land is low, and we have purchased a 
strip bordering the canal higher up than the present 
road. This will give a view over the canal to the lake. 
After passing the low land the present road will be 
again reached and the drive will continue around by 
Kingston, following the high road, crossing the bridge, 
and by Nassau Street back to the college. Nearly four 
miles of the drive will be close to the lake. The con- 
tract calls for macadamizing all the new and some of 
the old portions of the road for a width of fifteen feet. 
This problem means a study of all the region lying be- 

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tween Princeton and Kingston on both sides of the 
lake. 

"The artistic side of this great work greatly appeals 
to me. I have also found a high degree of satisfaction 
in this opportunity to work for my University." — The 
Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 29, 1905. 

At the Dinner, June 11, the Class voted to send the 
following message : 

"Andrew Carnegie, Esq., 

"Skibo Castle, North Britain. 
"Class of '76, at thirtieth anniversary dinner, drink 
your health in grateful appreciation of unique and far- 
reaching advantages you are preparing for university in 
constructing Princeton Lake. 

"Hareison", Class Secretary" 

This reply was received : 

"Clashmore, Scotland, June 13, 1906. 
"Harrison, Secretary, Princeton: 

"Deeply appreciate action Class '76. Great pleasure 
to help Princeton. Many thanks. Carnegie." 



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'76 AND RACE DECLINE 

The class secretaries of the class of 1876 in Harvard 
and in Princeton have recently exchanged the reports 
which each had made up for the twenty-fifth anniver- 
sary of graduation, and comparison of these reports 
shows some interesting differences. The Princeton class 
had 157 members, of whom 123 married and had 370 
children. The Harvard class had 303 members, of 
whom 136 married and have had 393 children. That 
is to say, 78 per cent, of the Princeton men married, 
and only 67 per cent, of the Harvard men. Harvard 
graduates of twenty-five years ago seem to have been 
less readily domesticated than their Princeton coevals, 
or possibly they were less successful in making a living, 
or less ready to settle down on such a living as they 
could make. At any rate, comparison of these two 
groups of statistics leaves the advantage with Princeton. 
— San Francisco Argonaut, May 26, 1902, reproduced 
from Harper s WeeTcly. 

An article on "Eace Decline," published in the Popu- 
lar Science Monthly, June, 1903, Avhich used the statis- 
tics contained in the Princeton '76 Eecoed of 1901, pre- 
sented several interesting comparisons. 

Marriage rate: Princeton, '76 (graduates), 80.4 ^ 

Yale, '60-'79, " 78.4 " 

Harvard, '72-'80 " 71.09" 
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Native-born male population 

of Massachusetts, . . 79.03% 
Foreign-born ditto, . . 83.46" 

Average number of children born : 

Princeton, '76, .... 3.2 '^ 

Yale, '60-'80, . . . . 2.55" 

Harvard, '72-'80, . . . 2.07" 

Native-born Massachusetts 2.7 " 

Average number of surviving children : 

Princeton, '76, . . . 2.7 " 

Yale, '60-'80, . . . . 2.28" 

Harvard, '72-'80, . . . 1.86" 

Native-born Massachusetts 1.9 " 

Number of surviving children to each graduate mem- 
ber of class, married and single: 

Princeton, '76, . . . 2.3 % 
Yale, '60-'79, . . . 1.79" 
Harvard, '72-'80, . . . 1.32" 

From these and other statistics presented, the writer 
of the article reaches the conclusion that "the college 
graduate does more towards reproducing the population 
than does the native American of other classes, but it is 
not true of Harvard, with its lower marriage rate." — 



197 



THE CLASS OF '76 MEMO- 
EIAL PRIZE DEBATE 

At the Class reunion in 1886, this prize was estab- 
lished, under the following regulations: The debate 
should be held on Washington's Birthday of each year ; 
there should be four contestants, one from each class; 
the subject debated should be one of current interest in 
American politics. It was further arranged that the 
Professor of Political Economy should each year select 
the subject and announce it at least two months pre- 
vious to the time of the debate ; that the Faculty should 
appoint three men to act as judges and award the prize. 

Subscriptions were obtained and the money was in- 
vested, from the income of which $50 was paid each 
year to the winner in debate. In 1891, the Class voted 
to increase the prize to $100, but sufficient money was 
not secured for this until 1895, since which time the 
prize awarded has been $100, or the income derived from 
the securities held by the University for the purpose. 

The total subscription amounted to $2,263.01. 

The debate was held in the old chapel on the even- 
ing of Washington's Birthday until 1895, when the con- 
test was transferred to Alexander Hall and held in the 
morning, before the other customary exercises of the 
day, which are given in the gymnasium. 

Originally each debater was allowed twelve minutes 
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for his first speech and eight minutes for rebuttal, but 
of late years these have been reduced to nine minutes 
and five minutes respectively. 

Following are the subjects and names of debaters 
since 1901. Those having the affirmative side of the 
question are placed at the left, the negative at the right : 

1902 
Resolved, That Congress should continue to exclude 
Chinese immigrants. 

Wm. Coleman Freeman '05, Pa. Philip A. Moore '04, Pa. 
Robert Candee '03, 111. Richard Ely '02, N. Y. 

Prize awarded to Eichard Ely. 

1903 
Resolved, That experience has shown the feasibility 
of maintaining the Munroe Doctrine. 

Granville Lindsay '06, Ky. Alroy S. Phillips '05, Mo. 
Geo. S. Hornblower '04, N. T. John Ewing Steen '03, Pa. 

Prize awarded to George S. Hornblower. 

1904 
Resolved, That the Government of the United States 
was warranted in the recognition of the Eepublic of 
Panama. 

Kenneth M. McEwen '06, N. T. Norman M. Thomas '05. 
Arthur B. Scott '04. Charles P. Deems '07. 

Prize awarded to Kenneth M. McEwen. 

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1905 

Resolved, That immigration should be further re- 
stricted by law. 

Henry J. Van Dyke, 3d, '08. Robert J. Sterritt '07. 
Walter S. Davison '06. Norman M. Thomas '05. 

Prize awarded to Walter S. Davison. 

1906 
Resolved, That the action of President Koosevelt in 
March, 1905, in response to the request of the President 
of Santo Domingo, was justifiable. 

John C. Cooper '09, Fla. Thomas S. Clark '08, N. Y. 

Robt. S. Sidebotham '07, Mich. Granville L. Burton '06, Ky. 

Prize awarded to Eobert S. Sidebotham. 



200 



THE PKECEPTORIAL 

SYSTEM 

In the educational world nothing for a long time has 
aroused so much interest as the preceptorial system in- 
troduced in Princeton in the fall of 1905. The indica- 
tions already are that other institutions will, in the 
near future, adopt it in one form or another. The fol- 
lowing account of it is condensed from articles by Presi- 
dent Wilson and Librarian Collins: 

In the spring of 1905 forty-seven men, specialists in 
their particular lines of study, were appointed precep- 
tors, to devote themselves exclusively to private confer- 
ence with the men under their charge upon the reading 
the latter are expected to do in their several courses. 
The preceptor is to act as guide, philosopher and friend. 
In each department of study each undergraduate who 
chooses the department, or is pursuing the courses of- 
fered in it in his year, is assigned to a preceptor, to 
whom he reports and with whom he confers upon all of 
his reading in those courses. 

The preceptor meets his students at frequent inter- 
vals, singly or in small groups, usually in his own pri- 
vate study or in some one of the smaller rooms of the 
University, and uses any method that seems to him most 
suitable to the individuals he is dealing with to give 

201 



their work thoroughness and breadth; the work they do 
with him is not preparation for examination, but is 
based upon books chosen as carefully as possible for the 
purpose of enabling them to cover their subjects intelli- 
gently. Now the reading of subjects, not intermittent 
study for examination, is the real work of the Univer- 
sity, and the amount of work done by the undergradu- 
ates has increased amazingly. But it is not the amount 
of work done that pleases the faculty so much as its 
character and the willingness and zest with which it is 
undertaken. 

As an indication of the working of the system it is 
reported that of the required and collateral books each 
student, during the first four months of the year, read 
on an average more than one and one-half volumes each 
month. At the same time the general circulation of 
the library declined only five per cent., while the circu- 
lation of over-night books — chiefly books of reference — 
increased more than three per cent., the most significant 
advance being in the historical sections, where the cir- 
culation jumped to three times the figures of the year 
before. The horse in undergraduate disguise has been 
led to water and made to drink. At some of the clubs 
complaint has arisen that too much shop is being talked 
at table, and it is a common thing for men to declare 
that they are too busy to do this, that or the other 
thing. 

There is nothing specially original in the whole 
thing; it has been done in various ways and places for 
years. But it is the systematic carrying out to a logical 
end that gives the Princeton system its value. Here 

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are the long-proposed professors of reading, the living 
library guides to the best reading, and they keep one so 
close to definite lines that aimless, useless reading is re- 
duced to a minimum; and one cannot graduate unless 
he has done his share of good reading. 



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FACULTY NOTES 

Eev. Henry Clay Cameron, Ph.D., D.D., was made 
Professor of Creek Language and Literature, Emeritus, 
two or three years ago. 

Eev. William Alfred Packard, Ph.D., D.D., was made 
Professor of Latin, Emeritus, during the past year, 
after a service of thirty-five years. He is a beneficiary 
of the Carnegie Eoundation, established to provide re- 
tirement pensions for professors in universities, colleges 
and technical schools in the United States and Canada. 

Prof. George Macloskie, of the Department of Biol- 
ogy, retired last Commencement after thirty-two years 
of active service and was elected Professor Emeritus. 

Charles A. Young, Ph.D., LL.D., appointed Professor 
of Astronomy in 1877, Emeritus 1905, is another bene- 
ficiary of the Carnegie Foundation. 

Still in active work at Princeton are Professors 
Brackett, Cornwall, McMillan and Hunt. 

Eev. P. P. Dalrymple, in the fall of 1902, accepted 
a call to the Presbyterian Church of Shawnee, Pa. 



204 



BASEBALL 

The Eecord of 1901 contained (page 204) a complete 
list of the scores made by Princeton and Yale in base- 
ball from 1896 to 1901. Since then the following gamea 
have been played: 



1902 



1903 



Princeton 


Yale 




Princeton 


Yale 


6 


10 


1904 


1 


3 


8 


5 


<( 


10 


1 


4 


5 


C( 


10 


4 


1 


2 


1905 


18 


2 


10 


6 


<c 


3 


2 


7 


6 


1906 


3 


2 






<c 


3 


2 



In the last eleven years Princeton has won the series 
with Yale eight times. 

With Harvard the following games have been played 
since 1901 : 





Princeton Harvard 


Princeton Harvard 


1902 


7 


1905 1 6 


1903 


6 5 


1906 8 6 


1904 


7 6 


"50 



The game in 1905 is the only one Harvard has gotten 

205 



from Princeton since 1900, and it is twelve years since 
Harvard won a series from Princeton. 

The longest, closest and most remarkable game in the 
annals of intercollegiate baseball was played at Prince- 
ton May 10, 1905, when in eighteen innings Princeton 
won from Amherst by a score of 1 to 0. 

M. N. J. 



206 



FOOTBALL 

The Eecoed of 1901 contained (page 203) a sum- 
mary of games played between Princeton and Yale from 
1873, and between Princeton and Harvard from 1880. 
Since 1901 the following games have been played: 



Princeton Harvard 

Goals Goala 

? 





Princeton 


Yale 






Goala 


Goals 




1901 





12 


1902 


1902 


•5 


12 


1903 


1903 


11 


6 




1904 





12 




1905 


4 


23 





II, y, J. 



DEBATES 



The record in debates is Princeton 4, Yale 8 : Prince- 
ton 4, Harvard 8, bnt Princeton has won four out of the 
last five with Harvard. 



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140 Hancock Avenue West, Detroit, Mich. 
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26 Library Place, Princeton, New Jersey 
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26 Cortlandt Street; 563 Madison Avenue, N. Y. City 
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4875 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 
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Care of Chas. Scribner's Sons, 153-157 Fifth Avenue, 

New York City ; Yonkers, N. Y. 
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Dayton, Ohio 
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Times Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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City 

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25 Broad Street, New York City 
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914 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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5035 Grand Boulevard, Chicago, 111. 
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Charleston, S. C. 
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Jenifer Building ; The Concord, Washington, D. C. 
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Hackettstown, N. J. 
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 
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Genoa, Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
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Valley Home, Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. 
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Peru, Ind. 
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55-56 Maryland Life Building; 2026 Mt. Royal Ter- 
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1420 M Street, Washington, D. C. 
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Canton, China 
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Dover, Del. 
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Garrett, Wyo. 
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120 Broadway, New York City 
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Princeton, N. J. ; Newport, R. I. 
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Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Ireland 
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20 East 50th Street; 69 East 54th Street, N. Y. City 
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170 Broadway, New York City 
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Street, New York City 
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1438-48 Land Title Building, Philadelphia ; West Walnut 

Lane, Germantown, Pa. 
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Mutual Life Insurance Co., N. Y. City ; Madison, N. J. 
Hon. James C. Jenkins, 

Lingayen, Philippine Islands 
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Princeton Club, 72 East 34th Street, New York City 
Major Richard W. Johnson, M.D., U.S.A., 

Fort Crook, Neb. 

Robert W. Johnson, M.D., 

101 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Md. 

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62 Astor Street, Chicago, 111. 

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141 Astor Street, Chicago, 111. 

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62 Cedar Street, New York City 
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1138 State Street, LaFayette, Ind. 
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West Chester, Pa. 
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Kittanning, Pa. 
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Gaffney, Cherokee Co., S. C. 
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306 South Front Street, Mankato, Minn. 
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St. Paul's Church, New Orleans, La. 
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Paotingfu, North China 
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Grand View-on-Hudson, Nevr York. 
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805 Keystone Building ; 5711 Elgin Avenue, Pittsburgh, 

Pa. 
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Crozer Building, Room 207, 1420 Chestnut Street, Phila- 
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5122 McPherson Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 
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332 East Lafayette Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 

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Trenton, N. J. 
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164 Market Street, Newark, N. J. 
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